Tim Cowlishaw timcowlishaw

(Preface: I don't really understand how the sociological idea of 'cultural capital' relates to the Marxian idea of 'capital', so this is a bit of a thought experiment to see what happens when you try and apply the logic of the latter to the former. I reckon it works quite well and explains a lot of stuff. I might be talking absolute shite though).

Gentrification as extraction of cultural surplus value

I get what ‘Cultural Capital’ is, but not why it’s called ‘capital’ in the Marxian sense. How do the dynamics of capital accumulation work?

Some of it’s obvious - the tastes and dispositions learned by our upbringing are a form of capital accumulation by inheritance

However, where does this capital originate from?


	/**
	Arduino Real-Time Slack Bot

	Copyright (C) 2016, Uri Shaked.

	Licensed under the MIT License

	https://github.com/urish/arduino-slack-bot

	Right folks, I'm getting rid of a bunch of the noise-making gear i've acumulated over the years, plus one decent computer monitor. Grab yourself a bargain! Looking to shift the below. Couple more pedals and eurorack bits to come too.

	--- PEDALS ---

	Behringer Ultra Feedback / Distortion pedal: £10

	Mooer Pitch Box pitch-shifter pedal: £20

	Behringer Ultra Octaver pedal: £10

	#!/bin/bash
	TEXT=`curl https://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/s/ \| pup 'table tbody tr td table tbody tr td p text{}'`
	COUNT=`echo $TEXT \| wc -w`
	echo $TEXT \| say -r $COUNT

	<!doctype html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<!-- Required meta tags -->
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">

	<!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
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	import mido
	import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
	from threading import Timer, Lock

	every = 12
	pw = 24/1000.0
	pin = 7
	port = 'pisound:pisound MIDI PS-3S0FFA2 20:0'
	GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
	GPIO.setup(pin, GPIO.OUT)

	#!/bin/bash
	export IFS=' '
	read -ra voices <<< `say -v ? \| grep en_ \| cut -d ' ' -f 1 \| tr "\n" " "`
	n="${#voices[@]}"
	rm alvin_lucier_*
	cp original.txt alvin_lucier_1.txt
	truncate -s 0 lucier.log
	cat original.txt
	echo ""
	echo "-------------"

	A short announcement (not a particularly important one, but it'll save telling
	everyone individually when I see them):

	I'm leaving UCL imminently - after a year or so, it's become fairly clear that
	I'm not really equipped for the demands of a research degree. This isn't a huge
	disappointment - I've certainly learnt loads while I've been there, and I'm glad
	I gave it a go, but it's not for me.

	The other consequence of this is that I'm going to be looking for work very
	shortly. I've already got some possible interesting things lined up, but would

	def spacer : Node = new Label(" ") { // This is fucking stupid.
	font = new Font(24)
	}