RaveSociety and SpaceThere is a profound historical geography to the ways of living that Schulman articulates, celebrates, worries over, and mourns ... This gentrificaiton of the mind makes it more difficult to learn the lessons of AIDS, to retain the insights of ACT UP. If United in Anger is memory work, then, Gentrification of the Mind is a diagnosis of the roots of forgetting ... For academics studying these issues, the frankness with which Schulman describes the difficulty of getting her study published is one source of discomfort. Another is inherent in her defence of challenging art as necessary to \'convey ideas so complex that derivative narrative constructions would not do those ideas justice\' ... Schulman’s brilliant book demands that we consider the place of universities in the gentrification of the mind, in reproducing privilege and normalizing homogeneity of perspective ... Moving and fertile.
