Obama Won! What's Next? - Intro (X.) by X.

Even as we marched with hundreds through the streets of New Brunswick on election night chanting “Yes, we can!”, “O-ba-ma!” and “No more Bush!”, even as city residents cheered from their porches and windows -some irresistibly pulled into the spontaneous celebration rally- even as the police helplessly watched the marchers disregard their every attempt to direct the demonstration back to the campus and away from the center of the city, even as we marveled at the immediate goodwill and organic teamwork in our newfound coalition of natural 21st century allies (students, creative class and union workers, grassroots community and antiwar organizers – white, Black, Latino & Asian, women & men, gay & straight), even as we walked yet another mile through the student ghetto at 1AM, giddy with excitement, relief and exhaustion (we’d been up since 5AM the morning before to turn up the vote throughout the city), even then… we couldn’t help but think about what’s next, about the changed world we would wake up in, about the need to adapt to the new circumstances quickly...

Where to start? There is so much to write about and as always so little time… (a problem that I’ll address in an upcoming post). The first and most important step is to get the key concepts out and then address them one at a time over the coming weeks. I started to work on another opus of an article and then realized I really ought to start using this blog as a blog(!) with regular (daily?) updates and not as a repository for infrequent dissertations. So here goes, expect shorter but much more frequent updates in the week to come.