Here some tweets I found of my postopolis talk. I think it went okay!

@nicolatwilley "Surviving genocidal pressures only to be undone by the real estate market." That, and the 1995 census of vampires. Gary Dauphin @postoplis!

@jordanclaire Thinking of Seinfeld scene, on Staten Island ferry: "What's that, daddy?" "That's Brooklyn, son. That's where Spike Lee lives!" #postopolis

@jordanclaire 'monocultural multiculturalism' in Fort Greene Bklyn gentrification #postopolis

@postopolis: RT @nicolatwilley: Gary compares gentrification to the neutron bomb: change the demographics but keep the buildings. Value of new metaphors

@postopolis: Gary points out that there are very few "vampire architects" in contemporary vampire writing (where "vampire" is a political metaphor)

@postopolis: The talk now shifts to the political implications of vampires in pop culture today - full-bloodedness vs. mixed-race vampires

@postopolis: Throughout Gary's presentation, lots of images of white vampires appear on the screen... followed by Blackula. Blade. White hipsters

@postopolis: The increasingly non-African American character of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, has led to something Gary calls Fort Greene Nostalgia

@postopolis: Gary asks: Do Ebony and Jet, in a collapsing magazine market, need to be saved as examples of black history? Media preservation

@postopolis: Gary is showing a randomly changing loop of images, and the effect is so great, actually. Wesley Snipes as Blade suddenly appears

@postopolis: The city as a geography of "ethnic pride" and "ethnic nostalgia." He mentions Ebony and Jet as a media of ethnic urban communication

@postopolis: Gary refers to himself as "a working journalist," not a theorist, not an architect, not an artist. Used to work for Black Planet.

@postopolis: And now Gary Dauphin begins. Laughing, he says that he will start his talk about LA... with a map of Brooklyn. And indeed he does.

@jordanclaire: Gary Dauphin – mapping fuzzier defns of identity-based communities, was just having convo about my interest in same w/ @subtopes #postopolis

@postopolis The increasingly non-African American character of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, has led to something Gary calls Fort Greene Nostalgia.