The Text below is written by Madeleyn Green, from Cornell International Affairs Review Vol 8 No 1 'A Beautiful Mess: The Evolution of Political Graffiti in the Contemporary City' In his analysis of Banksy's street art, cultural geographer L. Dickens calls modern street art "post-graffiti" and argues that tagging "as the core component of graffiti writing, is increasingly being replaced by ‘street logos'; a shift from typographic to iconographic forms of inscription." Schacter