{"id":2272,"date":"2008-11-01T06:42:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T05:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2010-11-19T02:41:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:41:28","slug":"writing-on-the-wall-campus-progress-dot-org-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2008\/11\/01\/writing-on-the-wall-campus-progress-dot-org-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing on the Wall &#8211; Campus Progress dot org &#8211; Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campusprogress.org\/books\/3349\/writing-on-the-wall\" target=\"_blank\"><em> A new academic book on graffiti offers a far too uncritical look at the art form. <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campusprogress.org\/books\/3349\/writing-on-the-wall\" target=\"_blank\"><em> <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">By Ben Adler<\/span><br \/>\nOctober 29, 2008<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/graffiti911.wordpress.com\/graffiti-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/sumzgraf.jpeg?resize=225%2C169\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">911 Graffiti Blog<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/graffiti911.wordpress.com\/graffiti-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/nyduo2.jpeg?resize=190%2C121\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A New York Transit Authority Number 1 subway car bearing the graffiti tag \u201cDani.\u201d (AP Photo\/NYPD)<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<dl><\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\u00a9 Frank H. Jump\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frankjump.com\/blog\/greenpoint_conservative_men.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\u00a9 Frank H. Jump\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In his review of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/62-9780814740453-0\" target=\"_blank\">Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York\u2019s Urban Underground<\/a><\/em> by Gregory Snyder, a sociologist and anthropologist at Baruch College in New York City &#8211; Adler asks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>So rather than attempting that, I wish that Snyder had devoted some space and energy to seriously examining questions he should have tackled: Can graffiti be harnessed as a force for social change? Do political pieces like <a href=\"..\/2008\/03\/01\/conservative-government-peeking-over-the-bqe-greenpoint-brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> <\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[photo above] <\/span><em>awaken the minds of the disengaged? <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new academic book on graffiti offers a far too uncritical look at the art form. By Ben Adler October 29, 2008 In his review of Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York\u2019s Urban Underground by Gregory Snyder, a sociologist and anthropologist at Baruch College in New York City &#8211; Adler asks: So rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[668,1192,1243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graffiti","category-photography","category-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-AE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}