I like Joe but I think since that talk was published his theory has been kind of negated somewhat. now people are histrionically woke (using all kinds of radical phraseology for 'clout' as they like to say) and everyone is laying claim to their own idea of feminism, of class, of queerness or of blackness. club culture is full of the most wannabe try hard confrontations and cancellations amongst middle class wonks. this isn't hacienda level shit by any stretch of the imagination, these guys would urinate and defecate if they were in even a london club in 2005. form 696 triumphed, but not in the ways some people think.
you can't even talk about black, gay or feminist nights, any claims to such a descriptor are just aesthetic or branding. they don't signify any kind of community cohesion. identity politics one, collective politics lost. and thats why people are now dancing in gentrifier hotspots (not even gentrified clubs but trendy japanese restaurants and trendy bars and the like...) the new generation of djs let the government clamp down. they made their political ontology predicated on them being a DJ - it's hard to explain crowley knows what I mean.
See also the fetish for bandcamp over spotify and youtube. just petty-bourgeois shit. when really we need to do is take the productive potential of youtube, all that accumulated data, and abolish it as an enterprise. but try telling that to djs.
