scenes and subcultures
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 morePacky McCormick • Conjuring Scenius — Packy McCormick
Several theories have been proposed, some less plausible than others. The dullness of long, dark winters is a common suggestion. The melodic nature of the language is another. It has also been pointed out that Sweden has the highest concentration of choirs in the world — eight percent of the population are active singers. Then there is the fact
... See moreHenrik Karlsson • Scene creation engines and apprenticeships
Miss Kamala Harris would probably be distraught to know — fashion actually does not really exist within the context of all that came before. Right now, it exists like it fell out of a coconut tree: people can cherry pick visual styles that suit them and not really care about a music scene that it first came from or a movie that it is being
... See moreKyle Raymond Fitzpatrick • Lol Fashion's Giving Me an Existential Crisis 😅
Part of the inherent strangeness of belonging to any sub-culture is that you behave in ways that start to feel totally normal to you, but, understandably, seem utterly bizarre to anyone on the outside.The quirks of our obsessions aren't always glamorous. And yet these moments can still absolutely be worthy of celebration. After all, they're part of... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
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... See more
archive.ph
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... See more
judy berman • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
Before, you’d be a goth and watch goth movies and listen to goth music and dress in all black. Now you just dress like that and it doesn’t matter who you are. The fashion isn’t the byproduct of the subculture: the fashion is the subculture.
Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick • Lol Fashion's Giving Me an Existential Crisis 😅
You are always internalizing the culture around you. Even when you wish you didn’t. So you better surround yourself with something you want inside—curate a culture.