1 An interesting forum post shared with me by @postpostpostr. It’s a critical reading of Sudhir Venkatesh’s book Gang Leader for a Day, about a UChicago grad student who crosses the street from his department— this is literally true— and conducts an ethnographic analysis of a Chicagoland gang. I read it around the time it was published and wouldn’t be able to recall many specifics, other than that it outlines some of the gang’s organizational features. (I do remember that the gang leader nets a low six-figure income but the organization thrives mainly on low-level operatives who perceive their miniature world as a wholly natural, automatic state of affairs).
Evil Weekly (9/26/2022)
Evil Weekly (9/26/2022)
Evil Weekly (9/26/2022)
1 An interesting forum post shared with me by @postpostpostr. It’s a critical reading of Sudhir Venkatesh’s book Gang Leader for a Day, about a UChicago grad student who crosses the street from his department— this is literally true— and conducts an ethnographic analysis of a Chicagoland gang. I read it around the time it was published and wouldn’t be able to recall many specifics, other than that it outlines some of the gang’s organizational features. (I do remember that the gang leader nets a low six-figure income but the organization thrives mainly on low-level operatives who perceive their miniature world as a wholly natural, automatic state of affairs).