We need innovative ways of thinking about architecture and land ownership which go beyond Marxist ideology and how capital intersects with land management. I have been pounding my skull about this for some time, and may nag Beacon again to let me crowd fund articles that look beyond housing authorities and regulation. I mean, okay, I am more fortunate getting brow beaten by a Presbyterian Corporation for being a destructive housekeeper than a Palestinian who sees Gaza as little more than an internment camp, absent getting gassed to death, but this doesn't change the collective unhappiness, and in my case, as well as Muammar's, misery at living in a space I did not choose. I felt compelled to exchange Diamond Park for Riverside, and do not envision it as a choice. Conservatives may say I could have stayed on Page Street, and yes, I could have, but might have been deranged by now. Only Darby Loop felt more dangerous than Page Street when I was still gainfully employed, and Darby, Upper Darby, have been taken over by the violence of Philly's inner city. Ditto Willmington, Delaware's hot spot, Newark, Chester, the District.
Transplanting ISIS to American Ghetto, that would be a carnival of blood spurting, and indeed, as a reality on the ground, not so far fetched, but I'd give Muammar my studio at the same rental subsidy I pay in exchange for a more appropriate environment for a non-accredited writer, implode the regulatory paradigm through ignoring it, and that would alter the economics. See what I'm driving at? Looking beyond self-interest and familial obligation, if we restored the Renaissance mechanism of patronage, we open up another dynamic. If I do not get out of this studio within the next 18 months, I'm finished. My mental health has taken too many blows with this landlord.
Giving my notice is a day to day thing, hour by hour, despite the reality that would entail. I really can't take it much longer, and I'm seriously considering a battered woman's shelter.
Even when it comes to zoning laws, we could put the homeless in offices overnight, in our empty skyscrapers.
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