There's a crack in everything: that's where the light gets in...

Given that the utopia I'm writing for The Bookmobile Project focuses on resistance and alternatives to neoliberalism emerging in those spaces where neoliberalism has most obviously failed, it's interesting to see this article on the emerging arts scene in Dublin in today's Guardian. Similar things have been happening in Nottingham for a while, I think. One Thoresby Street would not be in existence if capitalism could find a more profitable use for it, for one!

The problem is that rather than providing an alternative to the current way of living, such grassroots activity can be co-opted for the aims of capital, and art has often been used as a tool of gentrification. I don't think we can allow this fear to paralyse us, but it's certainly not something we can easily dismiss. If these cracks let the light in, we have to make sure it's a light that shines from a better future...