Mike Davis, professor emeritus of creative writing at UC Riverside, joined the San Diego chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1962 at age 16 and the struggle for racial and social equality has remained the lodestar of his life. His City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990) challenged reigning celebrations of the city from the perspectives of its lost radical past and insurrectionary future. His wide-ranging work has married science, archival research, personal experience, and creative writing with razor-sharp critiques of empires and ruling classes. Davis's many other seminal books include In Praise of BarbariansI, Late Victorian Holocausts, Prisoners of the American Dream, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, as well as a 2007 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and 2020 Cultural Freedom Prize from Lannan Foundation. He lives in San Diego.
Salvage LIVE: Capitalism & the Apocalypse with Mike Davis
Join Salvage and Haymarket Books for a discussion about Capitalism & the Apocalypse with writer and activist Mike Davis.
By Haymarket Books / April 15 2022
Mike Davis: Social Distancing, Not Home Arrest
The combined effects of fear, confinement, income loss and the potential destruction of family savings augur a mental-health crisis on an even larger scale than the pandemic itself. Consider solidarity an essential vaccine.
By Haymarket Books / March 16 2020
Mike Davis on COVID-19: The monster is at the door
Capitalist globalization now appears to be biologically unsustainable in the absence of a truly international public health infrastructure. But such an infrastructure will never exist until peoples' movements break the power of Big Pharma and for-profit healthcare.
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