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The story, Kelley writes, is “the tale of what happens when working-class consumption of popular culture overrides the interests or concerns of popular culture workers . . . a story about the limits of solidarity . . . [set by] consumers whose own self-interest may actually clash with the demands of laboring artists.”

Worker’s Song | Franz Nicolay

If scenes begin to emerge these days, they don’t stay local for long as their digital reach goes far beyond the manor. They trend online and become bought into or appropriated by the masses and diluted designed by committee — a fragment of what it once was. The gestation period is cut short and all before the scene has really reached its cultural... See more

The Futz Butler • Death of “Scene” Culture. Can youth subcultures exist in the… | by ...

Arising in occupied Trinidad was unprecedented public debate about the relationships between clothes and the overlapping precepts around class, gender, race, and empire.

Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation

In 2001, Castells wrote that the space of flows “links up distant locales around shared functions and meanings…while isolating and subduing the

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

‘Alternative’ and ‘independent’ don’t designate something outside mainstream culture; rather, they are styles, in fact the dominant styles, within the mainstream.

Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?

In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

“Derogatory media coverage is not the verdict but the essence of their resistance,” the sociologist Sarah Thornton wrote in her 1995 book Club Cultures, a history of dance clubs and raves.

Kaitlyn Tiffany • Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

My definition of punk is the free space. It’s an area in which new ideas can be presented without having to go through the filtration or perversion of profiteering. So, if we’re not worried about selling things, then we can actually think. The problem with new ideas is that they don’t have audiences. And in terms of the marketplace, an audience... See more

Andrea Kurland • Getting deep with Ian MacKaye, the godfather of DIY culture

breaks as well with the commodification of pornography,

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Worker’s Song | Franz Nicolay

The Futz Butler • Death of “Scene” Culture. Can youth subcultures exist in the… | by ...

Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Kaitlyn Tiffany • Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

Andrea Kurland • Getting deep with Ian MacKaye, the godfather of DIY culture

Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture