About Old Gods, New Enigmas. View the profiles of people named Mike Davis. In this urgent and extraordinarily frightening book, Mike Davis reconstructs the scientific and political history of a viral apocalypse in the making, exposing the central roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments, in creating the ecological conditions for the emergence of this new … The New Press is a nonprofit public-interest book publisher. Mike Davis, it is said, "holds the keys to understanding the city of Los Angeles and much else" (Lingua Franca).A former meatcutter and long-distance truck driver, he has taught urban theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, was a fellow at the Getty Institute, and was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa’aloa, Hawaii. SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books 4/14/2020 A Review of Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's New Book "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties" Historians in the News tags: Los Angeles, 1960s, urban history, book … Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. Marx has returned, but which Marx? Join Facebook to connect with Mike Davis and others you may know. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene? Your gift will support The New Press in continuing to leverage books for social change. He lives in San Diego. “Old God, New Enigmas is a project that no one but Mike Davis could have conceived and successfully executed: a systematic account of working-class politics on a global scale that can serve as a worthy accompaniment to Marx’s Capital itself. Like all of Mike Davis' books, this is an intellectual tour de force and the culmination of a lifetime of erudition. Please make a tax-deductible donation today! Mike Davis. A Review of Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's New Book "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties" Historians in the News tags: Los Angeles , 1960s , urban history , book review https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/city-of-quartz-mike-davis/1111638555 Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. A Review of Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's New Book "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties" Historians in the News tags: Los Angeles , 1960s , urban history , book review Mike Davis Mike Davis, author of The Monster Enters, also wrote City of Quartz, Buda’s Wagon, Ecology of Fear, Planet of Slums and (with Jon Wiener) Set the Night on Fire.