The cupcake has always itself been a gentrifying force: after all, the “pop-up cupcake shop” is the paradigmatic pop-up shop. But what all these things do is assert the infantilized values of an increasingly infantilized middle-class world on general society. This is how the passive-aggressive violence of the infantilized twee fascist manifests itself: moving across the world with a cupcake as a cowcatcher, shunting out everything that does not correspond to the values manifested within it; a much more effective way of sweeping up the sort of (poor, working-class, black) forces that informed the 2011 London riots than any broom. Cupcake facism - Australia, youre full of it. This is flat out one of the funniest, cleverest and most acute commentaries on food as politics I have come across in a long while. Thanks heaps to Ghassan Hage for the posting. :) bit.ly/1q1PfHH
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:59:13 +0000
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