The Five Senses of Gentrification
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The Five Senses of Gentrification
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It’s so weird , I text my friend, presumptively, to watch a stranger have what will obviously be one of the singular most beautiful moments of their entire life . I love the city for this, most of the time, for its vast de-privatization of sentiment — I like bearing witness to the best and worst of other people, and I like the knowledge that I am... See more
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There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenising, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feeling - depression, anxiety, loneliness, rage - are simply a consequence of
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the act of urban wandering, the spirit of political radicalism, allied to a playful sense of subversion and governed by an inquiry into the methods by which we can transform our relationship to the urban environment.