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Over time, as has been the case with somany avant-garde cultural phenomena, thepunk aesthetic-which initially caused socialoutrage and hysteria both in the United Statesand abroad-was incorporated to a substantialdegree into mainstream culture. The subcultural signs of the punk movement (fashions,songs, etc.) were soon converted into massproduced... See more
Auteur/Bricoleur/Provocateur: Gregg Araki and Postpunk Style in ...
This dialectic is muddy from the get-go, of course. It’s a version of the more familiar hipster trap: over time, the marginal labor of the bohemian experimentalist and taste-maker is swallowed up by the smug cartoon of the in-the-know consumer clone. But the near inevitability of this process also suggests that the first hipster was already part of... See more
Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
In interviews, Araki has addressed the connections between his filmmaking style, ongoinginfluences of the punk movement, and thesomewhat limited opportunities for realizingradical/subversive intentions in a highly commercialized society. As he explained in a 1997interview, ". .. my sister became an accountant, my brother became a computer... See more
Auteur/Bricoleur/Provocateur: Gregg Araki and Postpunk Style in ...
other words, punks consciously created a musical and visual aestheticthat distinguished them from mainstream expectations, appropriating established musicalstyles (e.g., rock) and fashion styles (e.g.,ripped t-shirts covered with profanity, guerillastyle outfits, modified school uniforms, outrageously dyed hair) in order to subvert theirmainstream... See more
Auteur/Bricoleur/Provocateur: Gregg Araki and Postpunk Style in ...
differential between the “landowners” and the “poachers”; yet it also acknowledges ways fans may resist legal constraints on their pleasure and challenge attempts to regulate the production and circulation of popular meanings.
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
VIRGIL ABLOH: “Duchamp is my Lawyer”
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For every new subway ad featuring an online pharmacy and a nice monstera plant, there was a new pop-up skate shop soaking up the runoff of Supreme teens. HSWLD on Delancey, a dozen others lost to memory… Online, I browsed IJJI and v.soon and Anti-Social Social Club on my friend’s Tiny Clothing Stores Are.na channel, this selection a mere trickle of
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