A short lecture on The Wire at the official launch of the book: De Stad als Organisatie. Lessen uit The Wire. University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam).
My chapter is about the allegory Snotboogie. In order to contextualize the content I will draft from Hip-Hop culture; music, movies, and symbols.
In this presentation I apply my model (via divergent thinking) to:
'Throwback' (symbol)
American Dream/Two Myths (message)
Marlo Stanfield (character)
Michael Lee (character)
Snotboogie (allegory)
see also:
http://destadalsorganisatie.overmanagement.net/
http://www.amsterdamonthewire.nl/
17. R. Alvarez, p67-68
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
parallel corridors:
the drug market of the West Baltimore
housing projects and the police
department charged with containing it.”
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18. R. Alvarez, p67-68
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
parallel corridors:
the drug market of the West Baltimore
housing projects and the police
department charged with containing it.”
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druggamedruggame trappedtrapped
19. but keep me cooped upprison of seclusion
in this ghettohappiness, living on the streets
is a delusion
sweated me, hunted me
trapped in my own community
director: Spike Lee
written/screenplay: Richard Price
Clockers (1995)
2Pac
Trapped
2Pacalypse Now (1991)
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american dreamwar on drugs/underclass
24. D. Lehane, p334-335
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
He’s been dehumanized to the
point where he’s incapable of
understanding why he should care
about anyone or anything that
doesn’t enrich his bottom line.
”
dehuman
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25. D. Lehane, p334-335
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
He’s been dehumanized to the
point where he’s incapable of
understanding why he should care
about anyone or anything that
doesn’t enrich his bottom line.
” M. Williams (Q&A)
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
calling the shots
”
rule.
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27. Marlo wanted money and power not
for their own sake, but so the
world would know they were his
and his alone. He defined, for the
purpose of The Wire, the emotional
end-game for any and every power
pyramid depicted.
”
power pyramid
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28. R. Alvarez, p344-345
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
Marlo wanted money and power not
for their own sake, but so the
world would know they were his
and his alone. He defined, for the
purpose of The Wire, the emotional
end-game for any and every power
pyramid depicted.
He represented ultimate totalitarian
impulse - beyond money, beyond power or
the exercise of power for its own sake,
but instead that strange combination
of self-love and self-loathing that
rarely dares speak its name openly.
”
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29. R. Alvarez, p344-345
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
Marlo wanted money and power not
for their own sake, but so the
world would know they were his
and his alone. He defined, for the
purpose of The Wire, the emotional
end-game for any and every power
pyramid depicted.
He represented ultimate totalitarian
impulse - beyond money, beyond power or
the exercise of power for its own sake,
but instead that strange combination
of self-love and self-loathing that
rarely dares speak its name openly.
”
Skyzoo & Torae
Memorabilia
Barrel Brothers (2014)
Staring at the crown and sizing up, do it fit? The truth, dudes
handing it over is overdue. We cutting hands off if hands
is slow to move. I’m a Stanfield waiting, in a room with a
Stringer. While he stand on his word while I stand impatient.”
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CrownCrown
30. Skyzoo & Torae
Memorabilia
Barrel Brothers (2014)
All this co-op talk --Staring at the crown
It sounds cool until...and sizin’ up do it fit?
Nobody wanna retire --
Until I’m swinging clubs
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marlospawn of the devil
35. D. Simon,
S4 Behind The Scenes: It’s all connected
Where are these children coming
from, who are manning these corners?
Where do the Wallaces, the Bodies,
and the Poots come from?”
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36. D. Simon,
S4 Behind The Scenes: It’s all connected
Where are these children coming
from, who are manning these corners?
Where do the Wallaces, the Bodies,
and the Poots come from?” Alvarez, p. 309-310
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
the making of a corner kid
”
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37. J. Cole
Lil’ Ghetto Nigga
The Come Up Vol. 1 (2007)
I see the world for what it is now. I see the odds is
looking slim for our kids now. Cause, uh, it wasn’t
set up for my people to rise, (yea). My niggas slang,
but I see the pain deep in they eyes.
D. Simon,
S4 Behind The Scenes: It’s all connected
Where are these children coming
from, who are manning these corners?
Where do the Wallaces, the Bodies,
and the Poots come from?” Alvarez, p. 309-310
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
the making of a corner kid
”
”
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painpain
38. Juelz Santana
Lil’ Boy Fresh
What the Game’s Been Missing! (2005)
J. Cole
Lil’ Ghetto Nigga
The Come Up Vol. 1 (2007)
This story starts off. Little boy black in the ghetto.
No matter what he does it’s back to the ghetto (ghetto).
No choice but to adapt to the ghetto, so he adapts to
the ghetto. Yes, the crack and the metal
I see the world for what it is now. I see the odds is
looking slim for our kids now. Cause, uh, it wasn’t
set up for my people to rise, (yea). My niggas slang,
but I see the pain deep in they eyes.
D. Simon,
S4 Behind The Scenes: It’s all connected
Where are these children coming
from, who are manning these corners?
Where do the Wallaces, the Bodies,
and the Poots come from?” Alvarez, p. 309-310
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
the making of a corner kid
”
””
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adaptadaptpainpain
39. Juelz Santana
Lil’ Boy Fresh
What the Game’s Been Missing! (2005)
J. Cole
Lil’ Ghetto Nigga
The Come Up Vol. 1 (2007)
This story starts off. Little boy black in the ghetto.
No matter what he does it’s back to the ghetto (ghetto).
No choice but to adapt to the ghetto, so he adapts to
the ghetto. Yes, the crack and the metal
I see the world for what it is now. I see the odds is
looking slim for our kids now. Cause, uh, it wasn’t
set up for my people to rise, (yea). My niggas slang,
but I see the pain deep in they eyes.
Alvarez, p. 309-310
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
the making of a corner kid
”
””
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adaptadaptpainpain
40. Juelz Santana
Lil’ Boy Fresh
What the Game’s Been Missing! (2005)
J. Cole
Lil’ Ghetto Nigga
The Come Up Vol. 1 (2007)
This story starts off. Little boy black in the ghetto.
No matter what he does it’s back to the ghetto (ghetto).
No choice but to adapt to the ghetto, so he adapts to
the ghetto. Yes, the crack and the metal
I see the world for what it is now. I see the odds is
looking slim for our kids now. Cause, uh, it wasn’t
set up for my people to rise, (yea). My niggas slang,
but I see the pain deep in they eyes.
Alvarez, p. 309-310
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
the making of a corner kid
”
””
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adaptadaptpainpain
42. E. Burns, p119
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
The gangs in Baltimore are
neighborhood gangs, and the clever
kids use their little group as a
vehicle [to work the game]”
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43. E. Burns, p119
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
The gangs in Baltimore are
neighborhood gangs, and the clever
kids use their little group as a
vehicle [to work the game]”
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kingking
44. E. Burns, p119
The Wire: Truth Be Told (2009)
Juelz Santana
Lil’ Boy Fresh
What the Game’s Been Missing! (2005)
The gangs in Baltimore are
neighborhood gangs, and the clever
kids use their little group as a
vehicle [to work the game]
The story’s over man (It’s over man). They all kinda end
like that sometime too (Ya dig). Ya see, I told the story
cuz man, I kinda feel like. Every hood, everybody. Everybody
got a Lil Boy Fresh around them somewhere
”
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every hoodevery hood
kingking
52. Juelz Santana
Lil’ Boy Fresh
What the Game’s Been Missing! (2005)
I mean, people always gonna try
and get over on you. But protect
what’s yours, protect your family
Protect what’s right (You hear me)”
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protectprotect
53. Juelz Santana
Lil’ Boy Fresh
What the Game’s Been Missing! (2005)
I mean, people always gonna try
and get over on you. But protect
what’s yours, protect your family
Protect what’s right (You hear me)”
Michael = American Dream
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protectprotect
54. Juelz Santana
Lil’ Boy Fresh
What the Game’s Been Missing! (2005)
I mean, people always gonna try
and get over on you. But protect
what’s yours, protect your family
Protect what’s right (You hear me)”
Michael = institution
Michael = American Dream
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protectprotect
55. Juelz Santana
Lil’ Boy Fresh
What the Game’s Been Missing! (2005)
I mean, people always gonna try
and get over on you. But protect
what’s yours, protect your family
Protect what’s right (You hear me)”
Michael = Omar
Michael = institution
Michael = American Dream
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protectprotect
56. J. Cole
Lil’ Ghetto Nigga
The Come Up Vol. 1 (2007)
Michael
Teemong (videoproducer)
/Teemong
I see the worldEVERYTHING WE LEARN
for what it is nowCAME FROM RAPPERS. NOT TEACHERS
bitch, i'm getting cake
and ain't a nigga finna eat mines
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michael
the young, black, and genius
60. D. Simon,
S4 Behind The Scenes: It’s all connected
The number of people who have
been [ hideously ] or fecklessly
left behind is shocking to me
”
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61. D. Simon,
Observer Ideas festival (2014)
Collective responsibility
without personal freedom -or
without liberty- is tyranny.
It’s totalitarianism. That’s
something we should fear always.
But conversely, personal freedom
and personal liberty without
collective responsibility
-without a shared sense that you
are part of society and that you
owe it to society to participate
fully- and to seek utilitarian
solutionstosociety’sproblems...
That’s just selfish. That’s just
bad citizenship. That’s a recipe
for a second-rate society.
”
D. Simon,
S4 Behind The Scenes: It’s all connected
The number of people who have
been [ hideously ] or fecklessly
left behind is shocking to me
”
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63. (Alvarez, 2009, p. 70-71)
This is America.
And to the extent that its
institutions manage to exclude
or diminish its people, they will
nonetheless find a way to play.
”
why do
you let ’em
play?
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64. (Alvarez, 2009, p. 70-71)
This is America.
And to the extent that its
institutions manage to exclude
or diminish its people, they will
nonetheless find a way to play.
[…]
The Snotboogies of the world may
be comical and doomed and they
are often dangerous.
But as citizens of a parallel world
under the same Stars and Stripes
as the legitimate America, they
must be allowed to play.
”
why do
you let ’em
play?
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67. Much obliged
Thank you
divergentie: een studie naar het leven van snotbboogie
open uva-middag
vr. 3/6/2016
wouter pocornie
26h
info@26h.eu
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