Needless to say, we weren’t really pro-stadium.
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No excerpt really did this piece justice — it is meant as an examination of online gentrification in regard to Tumblr, Itch.io, and the mechanisms by which is works (discourse, it mainly works by discourse), and the side-effects that this is having on the very online and their level of comfort with topics relating to sexuality.
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The mirror of terraforming is “xenoforming” — think here of the “red weed” mentioned in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, making the Earth alien-like, or of the strangeness from the Southern Reach Trilogy. Gentrification is like xenoforming. It isn’t some extraterrestrial force though, no little green men are showing up to pry off the old house numbers and put up the addresses rendered in metal Neutraface, the official font of gentrification.
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The East-West issue has always seemed to be one of the most important ones. For a long time I was a delivery driver – first I was a legal courier and then I delivered pizzas – so I’ve been all over, and I learned all the streets of this city a deeper, more granular level than most people, and I began to notice something.
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The problem with railing against nostalgia as a cultural phenomenon is that when you experience it yourself, you feel like a phony.
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