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The streetwear instinct for limited drops has its own roots in ‘90s culture — hip-hop, skateboarding, and their outsider status. The idea to do things limited, to intentionally craft a drop to make it special, if you know you know, echoes those ‘90s scenes.

Yancey Strickler • Selling out without selling out

gay DIY porn can interrupt the narrative and aesthetic limits of commercial gay porn.

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

The conditions of communication and information access on an everyday level ensure the systematic erasure of the past as part of the fantasmatic construction of the present.

Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

blurred generic boundaries of network programing.

Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture

That bracketing includes forms of culture as well as identities. It might also be accurate to describe Filterworld as dictatorial or feudal: we all reside online within spaces we have no power over, following capricious rules that we don’t approve.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Football stadiums historically were refuges and meeting places for various subcultures such as punks, mods, skinheads (both the fascist and antifascist kinds) etc... as at the time it was a very cheap and very working class pastime.

Depending on the places some subcultures often took precedence until they ran other subcultures out of the stadium. I... See more

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By definition, mass media abhor diversity. Mass media as an institution imposes one image of the public on itself, which is fashioned, God-like, in the image of those who control media. The institution rejects that which does not conform as deviant: noise.

Jeff Jarvis • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

Stolen Valor: Mapping the Style Subcultures of the Left

Lydia Mokdessi academicworks.cuny.edu