Carlsson, Chris

From P2P Foundation

Chris Carlsson, of Processed World Magazine and activist in the San Francisco area.

Photo link: http://www.processedworld.com/carlsson/chris/chrisdoublebike.jpg

Bio

"OF ALL SAN Francisco's visionaries, Chris Carlsson has the most comprehensive grasp of the city's peculiarities and potential. As an organizer, he's a hub around which the city's dissident communities rotate. As an editor and writer, he cogently illuminates San Francisco's past, present, and future.

Carlsson's biography reads like a bibliography. For more than 20 years, he coproduced Processed World, a journal that sought to direct white-collar anomie against capital itself. He coedited Reclaiming San Francisco, a powerful invocation of the ghosts of opulent oligarchs and the community campaigns that complicated their desires, and with collaborators he compiled Shaping San Francisco's complimentary CD-ROM that preserves a dazzling array of local history in an interactive digital format. An original member of Critical Mass, the bicycling conspiracy that has been clogging downtown traffic for more than a decade to protest car culture and seize public space, Carlsson assembled Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration as a tribute to this now global phenomenon. His most recent books are After the Deluge, a utopian novel set in 22nd-century San Francisco, and The Political Edge, a collection of diverse perspectives on the implications of the oddball coalitions of Matt Gonzalez's insurgent mayoral campaign.

The common thread throughout this prodigious output? The inquiry "Why is life so inadequate when we are so creative?" and a celebration of everyone who fulfills their potential by refusing to accommodate banality and despair." (http://www.sfbg.com/39/34/lit_interview_carlsson.html)

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