Thanks for sharing!
There's a sometime interesting discussion re essay in:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033969
By the very yuppies of tech that seem to be mentioned..
Noticed that in terms of language, where as in the essay the
pre-gentrified's signifier is itself as a sign - eg the
dear Brett,
your essay is brilliant and obvious at the same time. I did enjoy
reading it, but still feels like scratching the surface as it does not
dig into other historical examples of cultural gentrification.
It may go well along the read of Gambiarra by Felipe Fonseca
Hi all,
Johan Soderberg and I are writing this paper titled Repurposing the
hacker. Three temporalities of recuperation. We do adopt a deeper
historical framework while trying to understand how hacking has been
hacked, and try to answer a more general question on how to
analyze/avoid what