scenes and subcultures
by alexi gunner · updated 1mo ago
scenes and subcultures
- There’s power in signaling insider knowledge to outsiders, so naturally we see the memetic propagation of idiomatic lore artifacts beyond the bounds of where they actually convey meaning. But as time goes on, their density and alienation from more universal lexicons makes it hard for even the ‘in-group’ to keep track of this internal meaning. It’s ... See more
from How to Read the Internet by Libby Marrs
alexi gunner added 2mo ago
- One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them. Subcultures have a predictable lifecycle, in which popularity causes death. Eventually—around 2000—everyone understood this, and gave up hoping some subculture could somehow escape this dynamic.
from Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths in Subculture Evolution by meaningness.com
alexi gunner added 2mo ago
- Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?
from Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths in Subculture Evolution by meaningness.com
alexi gunner added 2mo ago
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 morefrom þÿK-punk by þÿMark Fisher,Darren Ambrose
alexi gunner added 2mo ago
- It makes sense that norms are shifting in this direction as Gen Z’s influence spreads. Raised on social media, with access to once illicit bad-taste touchstones like Rocky Horror just a click away, they’ve largely replaced IRL subcultures with a constellation of aesthetics—cottagecore, dark academia, Y2K—to be performed, then discarded or demoted t... See more
from Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste by time
alexi gunner added 2mo ago
Scenia do not start fully-formed. Instead, they evolve through three stages: communities, micro-scenia, and scenia.
Community: a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common; a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
Examples: early personal
... See morefrom Conjuring Scenius — Packy McCormick by Packy McCormick
alexi gunner added 2mo ago
- So I will risk sounding like an old raver shaking her cane to note that subcultures, even the vapid ones, used to tie their participants to people and places. Getting into a scene could be work; it required figuring out whom to talk to, or where to go, and maybe hanging awkwardly around a record store or nightclub or street corner until you got sco... See more
from archive.ph
alexi gunner added 2mo ago
Before there is a subculture, there is a scene. A scene is a small group of creators who invent an exciting New Thing
from Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths in Subculture Evolution by meaningness.com
alexi gunner added 2mo ago
we have the sense that what we're consuming is more personalized which is a little bit at odds with consuming as a community right so the idea of the monoculture if you have a monoculture it's pretty easy to situate the counterculture in relation to that right with the monoculture is everyone watching Game of Thrones at the same time the countercul
... See morefrom Where Is the Counter-Culture? On the Rise of the Critic Class | VISIONS @ MoMA Session 2 by Future Commerce
alexi gunner added 5mo ago