I’m the world of tagging culture, even in political graffiti, there are tags build up upon tags, counter discourses painting over original messages.
To arrest one over an act of tagging over another is the height of absurdity. nonplaces of the streets must be defended as vital. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1282824404494364673
The streets have always been the sites of transgressive aesthetic and political aesthetic activity, one that is ephemeral. On the 1st level, to raise the BLM painted tag to the level of public monument totally defeats the point, it saps it of any power and vitality, makes it
The subject of the state apparatus and its ideology enforcement, no better then the monuments it tore down. And on the 2nd level, to tag over it sinks the BLM tag into this vitality and ephemerality of tagging culture once more. The man who did it provided an essential service
,Because now it reveals that the BLM tag either stands on its own in the street culture it came from, or betrays that culture by being raised to the level of absolute unquestionable state public religious orthodoxy, and by defacing it, reveals its *true* place, Bare and brittle.
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