fromThe Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music
4 days agoAgainst The Grain: Mattie Colquhoun on Mark Fisher's cultural pessimism - The Wire
For Fredric Jameson, for instance, while modernism "thought compulsively about the New and tries to watch its coming into being", postmodernism "looks for breaks, for events rather than new worlds". The latter definition, encapsulating the cultural logic of late capitalism, is all the more intriguing in the context of music culture, since it has found so many breaks to play around with.
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