Re:When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing
by throwaway43532 on Saturday January 27, 2018 @12:53PM
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How exceptionally Baudrillardian, or maybe the word is meta.
A class, in their search for authenticity, have "gentrified" the authentic experiences -- and hardships -- of an originating lower class into trendy symbols.
The social metamorphosis is complete when the symbol replaces the experience entirely, to the annoyance of the originating class; in part because the experience was a symbol of their own identity.
The effect is then highlighted in language ostensibly for the gentrifying class, on a virtual property catering to the same, and posted for discussion on another such virtual property.
Finally, like the author who pretentiously signals a more authentic worldview through the symbolic understanding and condemnation of the effect, so this poster signals the same through bemused expression of its symbolic and recursive nature.
A class, in their search for authenticity, have "gentrified" the authentic experiences -- and hardships -- of an originating lower class into trendy symbols.
The social metamorphosis is complete when the symbol replaces the experience entirely, to the annoyance of the originating class; in part because the experience was a symbol of their own identity.
The effect is then highlighted in language ostensibly for the gentrifying class, on a virtual property catering to the same, and posted for discussion on another such virtual property.
Finally, like the author who pretentiously signals a more authentic worldview through the symbolic understanding and condemnation of the effect, so this poster signals the same through bemused expression of its symbolic and recursive nature.