my anarchist neighborhood

paean to Εξάρχεια (Exarcheia) and αναρχία (anarchia)

I’ve lived in Exarcheia (Εξάρχεια), Athens, Greece for twenty simmering days. I’m living here for one month, but the mood and attitude—the social pulse and graffiti, noise and dirt, styles and behaviors—have reinvigorated my anxious state of shifting from (in)stability to staying in Europe—for the time being.

Gentrification became uncomfortable in Bozem…