Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties - Rockument
It's not only UK dance music of the Nineties that is associated with cities; the whole history of popular music is about urban scenes. It's no accident that Motown started in Detroit, house in Chicago, hip-hop in New York… Cities are pressure cookers which can synthesise influences
quickly and in a way that is both collective and idiosyncratic. Scen
... See moreþÿMark Fisher,Darren Ambrose • þÿK-punk
the small industries of the inner cities were being replaced by artists and the smooth affluence that sometimes follows and imitates artists.
Rebecca Solnit • A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Simply by trying to make a living or entertain ourselves we…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
young people began flocking to San Francisco once again, but they didn’t come to listen to free verse or to drop acid. They came to make a killing.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
In the early 2010s, a new phenomenon emerged called an “Instagram wall”. In part, it was an outgrowth of the street-art movement of the 00s, a gentrification of graffiti that saw clean, officially sanctioned murals take over city walls, particularly in neighbourhoods where decrepit warehouses were plentiful. Street art became an attraction in and o... See more
Kyle Chayka • The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
The hippie was the direct descendant of the eccentric bohemian of the nineteenth century, writ large.