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This epochal coalescence has far-reaching consequences for the social relations of the built environment. In the first place, the market privision of 'security' generates its own paranoid demand.'Security' becomes a positional good defined by income access to private 'protective services' and membership in some hardened residential enclave or restricted suburb. As a prestige symbol--and sometimes as the decisive borderline between the merely well-off and the 'truly rich'---'security' has less to do with personal safety than with the degree of personal insulation, in residential, work, consumption and travel environments, from 'unsavory' groups and individuals, even crowds in general.
Mike Davis, City of Quartz, 224
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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