The Speculators™
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When the market decides a neighborhood’s history is its most valuable asset, survival becomes a war for narrative sovereignty. This IP indicts the admiration-to-extraction pipeline, forcing a diaspora to weaponize their own ghosts against an algorithmic economy that seeks to strip-mine their heritage for content.
This project destabilizes the standard displacement narrative by reframing gentrification as a mythic "body snatching" of cultural memory. It maps the invisible mechanics of "culture-mining," exposing how authenticity is converted into inventory while formalizing the tension between circular time and linear capital.
