... cultural decadal summary from Mark Fisher/K-Punk in this week's New Statesman (best, most succinct I've seen yet).
Fave bits:
No longer dressed in staid grey, the new cultural conservatism that enjoys full-spectrum dominance blitzes us with hypnotic hype - the whole neurotic assault and battery of multi-media marketing and interactivity that seems designed to ensure that nothing will ever happen again.
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But if bohemia can rouse itself from defeat and depression, the cultural terrain seems open for contest in a way that it has not been for a long time. Perhaps soon we will be able to look back on the Noughties with a shudder and think: how did things ever get that bad?
Fisher's book is a bargain ...
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