scenes and subcultures
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
... See moreFuture Commerce • Where Is the Counter-Culture? On the Rise of the Critic Class | VISIONS @ MoMA Session 2
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
USB Club
usb.club
Before there is a subculture, there is a scene. A scene is a small group of creators who invent an exciting New Thing
David Chapman • Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
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.
... See moreþÿMark Fisher,Darren Ambrose • þÿK-punk
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
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