Gentrification, Colonialism, and Anti-Production: Notes on the Failed Stadium

Needless to say, we weren’t really pro-stadium.

Political, State of Misery, Written by: CameronCameron SummersApril 3, 2024Kansas City, Local, Gentrification, Colonialism, Settler Colonialism, Capitaliforming, Anti-ProductionComment

The Social Zamboni

I call this “the social zamboni.” It is something that smooths out the rough edges and fields of intensity. I do not think that this particular social formation is one that was designed – such thinking would be conspiracism – but one that has gradually emerged to make the environment in which it occurs more stable.

Analysis, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersJuly 21, 2021Mark Fisher, David Graeber, Rebecca Solnit, Naomi Klein, Weird Towns, The Utopia of Rules, Bullshit Jobs, A Paradise Built in Hell, The Shock Doctrine, Capitalist Realism, CapitaliformingComment

The Follies of Mammon

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.