A “cool and possibly evil scene”: the supposed “cultural ascendency of the new, young right” has produced a novel resurgence of the cringe Dimes Square discourse. Although I think it’s fundamentally good to argue about all things at all times, I’ve lived here, at the circus, for five years and I hate reading anything too closely related to my own life. I could only stomach the grim realism of Matthew Gasda’s Dimes Square and Other Plays because I happened to find a copy while I was out of town, at my favorite bookstore in Stratford, Ontario. After reading, I could not bring myself to bring it back home with me, so I left it at the lake house…
Notes from the garret: following last week’s post concerning issues everybody used to talk about compulsively, but no longer really mention – artists’ complicity in gentrification! Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living is the primary text, alongside Martha Rosler’s Culture…
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