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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Was the new economy the punk rock of the last decade? |
hoo, we see, David, that you've firely beat'n down the avant-garde ! and it's a f-kin' large stepp to enjambe. now ... are you ready for the En-gArde ??? http://pavu.com -/ forget the avan-garde ! get ready for the En-gArde ! /- sharp swords to be hired to croSS very soon so ... train and practice ...! ---- all of yu ! David Garcia a *crit : > > Was the new economy the punk rock of the last decade? > > Punk was the movement that finally demystified being a rockstar. > Traditional musical skills of even the most basic kind were ditched. the > paradigmatic punk band would only need (accompanied of course with the right > attitude and or haircut) to thrash away at their instruments and concoct a > bold sloganising dittie 'anarchy in the UK' 'God Save the Queen'. All you > needed to be a rock star was energy (lots of it) attitude (even more of it). > And for a few months some of them were right! > > well for a while I've had this de ja vu thing of thinking I was back in the > late 70's when every one I knew seemed to be in a band but this time round > everyone has a dot.company. Types of people who generation ago would have > talked about 'selling out' are now ONLY selling out, to the highest bidder. > Money is cool, money is the new black, youth culture has organised itself > around money as never before. Money doesn't buy culture it is culture. Just > as once you didn't need to hold a tune to be a rock star this time round you > don't have to make a profit to be a billionaire. So what if its only for a > week. In the future will every one be a millionaire? Yes but only for 15 > minutes. > > So can we learn anything from what happened when the punk bubble burst? > When the emperors clothes were only held together with safety pins. Well > interestingly punk never went away. It is still with us. From the wild > speciation of those heady days a surprising amount made the transition into > the pop version of viability and the DIY approach to fashion, music and art > is still visible-particularly in Brit. art from T.Emin to D.Hurst the 'in > you face' combination the entrepreneurial punk ethic/aesthetic remains with > us and can still be re.freshing. In much of indy pop culture. the > territories opened up turned out to be real and the insights and procedures > are continually re-purposed and re-mixed for new eras. And when you see > footage of the sex pistols in full frenzy you realise that they were even > better than we thought at the time. Whatever they could or couldn't do they > were a bloody good band > > I have only one fear of pursuing this spurious analogy and that is that punk > was followed by the pathetic...sigh.... 'New Romantics'... sigh... > > Are we in for the New Romantic economy? Geert Lovink please put this on the > agenda of your conference so that we me know how it will look. Personally > I'm waiting for the grunge economy. I'm told it won't be long. > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold