GRACE LEE BOGGS, The Next American Revolution Brothers and sisters, I wanna tell you something. I hear a lot of talk by a lot of honkies sitting on a lot of money telling me they’re high society. But I’ll let you know something. If you ask me, this is the high society. MC5, “MOTOR CITY IS BURNING” (live intro) SPEND ANY TIME IN DETROIT and you’ll quickly see that the city’s ongoing and multi-sectored collapse has made room for a kind of street-level anarchy. Red lights: optional. Buildings: porous. All manner of vice could easily be had. More positively, self-reliant Detroiters exploited, with admirable vigor, the twin strengths of their particular failed state: space and lawlessness. Artists, musicians, and other bohemian types tended to hog all the ink when it came to manifestations of the do-it-yourself spirit, but painting foreclosed homes “Tiggerific Orange” as a conceptual art prank or throwing a rave in an abandoned auto factory were not the only creative reclamations of negative space.
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