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Rapid Nostalgia
MFA Thesis
Rapid Nostalgia № 008: Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City—Chapter 4: A Matter of Perspective, by Eric Avila
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AVILA, ERIC. “A Matter of Perspective: The Racial Politics of Seeing the Freeway.” The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City, University of Minnesota Press, 2014, pp. 119–48. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt6wr7hb.8
This chapter from Eric Avila’s “The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City,” is bisected by smaller fold-out sheets. Wikipedia articles of the various Los Angeles freeways interupt the flow of reading, much like those freeways disrupt communities that couldn’t stop them from being made.
Explore more projects from my MFA thesis, Rapid Nostalgia
❸ After graduating Otis College of Art and Design, Rapid Nostalgia lives on. This image is a design rendered to look like a risograph print, a series of postcards depicting the various cold war era emergency sirens that still stand around Los Angeles today.
❹ The first edition of How to Give Your Work Away for Free, by Matthew Manos, featured a book sleeve that folded out into a small poster.