Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Ben Beitler is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of French. He studies environmental conflict in film and literature, with a special interest in representations of expertise. His work has appeared in Paragraph and Continuum: Journal of Media &amp; Cultural Studies. He is from Palo Alto.

Ben Beitler

The Children of California Shall Be Our Children: On Malcolm Harris’s “Palo Alto”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Ben Beitler is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of French. He studies environmental conflict in film and literature, with a special interest in representations of expertise. His work has appeared in Paragraph and Continuum: Journal of Media &amp; Cultural Studies. He is from Palo Alto.