Webdesign. "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" danah boyd Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) New York, NY 30 June 2009 [This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] Citation: boyd, danah. 2009.
"The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online. " Messy life, clichéed death for prince of hipsters. Dash Snow died this past Monday of a heroin overdose, and obituaries all over the world have established him, already, as "iconic," a kind of cipher for the Downtown New York art scene of the past 10 years.
They usually begin by identifying him as an artist but nobody really wants to talk about his art. He was a fascinating muse for other artists, but his lifestyle is the most interesting thing about him, involving as it did a devotion to every kind of hedonism possible when a person has no respect for taboos and pots and pots of money. The style of his death also represents the end of a particular moment in the life of American art, the logical conclusion of its utter submission to the glut of money fuelled by fraudulent financial instruments pumping through the world's major cities before the crash. Corporate Logos redesigned in 2.0.