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Like punk, they used pop music as the means to dive into the collective unconscious, only this was not Dickensian London, but De Quincey’s Manchester: an environment systematically degraded by industrial revolution, confined by lowering moors, with oblivion as the only escape.
Deborah Curtis • Touching From a Distance: The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division.
In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
my project is already concerned with a subculture that exists in the “borderlands” between mass culture and everyday life and that constructs its own identity and artifacts from resources borrowed from already circulating texts.
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
close ties between male fans and male writers created barriers to female fans and this fandom’s traditions resisted inflection or redefinition.
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Terry Nguyen • Trends are dead
breaks as well with the commodification of pornography,
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Years before Wikipedia or most other online resources, these sites were among the first places where Radiohead fans could go to learn basic information about the band, like a history of their EPs and single releases. It was also a clearinghouse for news items about whatever Radiohead happened to be doing in the studio or on the road.