ABSTRACT
“Notes From Technotopia 3.0: On the ‘Creative City’ Gone Wrong” delves into the dangers of the ultimate “creative city,” the much-touted “post-gentrification era” and what it meant to be a foreigner in his own neighborhood of San Francisco. “A Sad Letter from San Francisco, Chilicon Valley” is a radio chronical broadcast on All Things Considered (National Public Radio, USA) about US Mexico relations, border culture, Mexiphobia in the political and media mainstream and the rabid gentrification of San Francisco. “Radio Mission: Two Audio-Postcards from the Bohemian Theme Park” invites the passengers of the Mission Tour to participate in a Mexican “processional.” Gómez-Peña discusses race, gender and sexual fetishes with Siri to explore using Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, photo and video blogs and Google as a creative and activist tool. In “X-treme Tourism Online,” Gómez-Peña makes a confession about his fetish of X-treme virtual tourism generated by performance insomnia and existential asthma. With “www.terminaldemocracy.com,” Gómez-Peña creates an infomercial regarding fictional illnesses and the American culture of hypochondria during his recovery from myelitis.
