{"id":597,"date":"2020-11-03T18:49:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/?p=597"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T12:11:01","slug":"the-gentrification-of-the-mind-witness-to-a-lost-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/bookshelf\/the-gentrification-of-the-mind-witness-to-a-lost-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Schulman\u00a0<\/em>(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013)<\/h2>\n

Recommended by Rona Cran<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThis is a queer book \u2013 one that refuses the well-worn and instantly recognizable structure of academic books, that doesn\u2019t follow the storyline academic books are supposed to follow. As Schulman writes in her introduction, \u2018some ideas have to be formally replicated, instead of being described. They have to be evoked.\u2019 The Gentrification of the Mind<\/em> is a memoir and analysis of the years during the AIDS crisis during which Schulman witnessed the disappearance of the New York she knew and loved, with the spectre of AIDS moving hand-in-hand with gentrification and mainstream consumerism. It laments lost places and lost people (\u2018destroyed neighborhoods remain destroyed\u2019) but it is also a celebration of difference and futurity, of using activism and the arts to reclaim those lost places: \u2018in order for radical queer culture to thrive, there must be diverse, dynamic cities in which we can hide\/flaunt\/learn\/influence \u2013 in which there is room for variation and discovery\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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