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Commodity: experiences living in late capitalism

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Bell reflects on her experience as an artist surviving in a capitalist society. She paints a vision of Toronto in the ’90s and what’s happened to the thriving indie art scene in subsequent years. The neighbourhood she grew up in has been gradually swallowed by gentrification. Small family-run shops have taken turns being over- taken by national corporations, and marginalized groups have been forced to vacate the communities they once formed amidst scarcity.

Run This City & Short Circuit: Anarchist Writings On Gentrification and Class Power in the Urban Environment

Originally published in Volume 1 of Mortar, a theoretical journal available online at linchpin.ca, this zine features two pieces centred around building class consciousness in urban environments. Large emphasis on gentrification processes and Marxist/anarchist perspectives.