The Olympicization of Skateboarding: "Can a commodified and centralized subculture remain an outlet for the weird and uncanny?"

This provocative question concludes the introductory paragraph to the special section on Skateboarding in Vol 4 no. 2, of Portable Gray, published in the Fall 2021. Portable Gray, edited by Zachary Cahill and published by the University of Chicago Press, is the magazine of The Richard and Mary L. — Read the rest