luka
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I've been meaning to start a thread on commodified London, a glossy repackaged version of London street culture with the poverty and desperation airbrushed out. A Shoreditch box park vision of creatives in box fresh Nike Airs, smiling, multiracial, good looking and cool exemplified in my mind by an addidas advert that was inescapable on youtube a few months back and soundtracked by Ms Banks-Chat to Mi Gyal.
This is that thread but with a broader remit, inspired by corpsey saying in the Marvel movies thread
"“Today what we are experiencing is the absorption of all virtual modes of expression into that of advertising. Advertising effaces any support and any depth, signifying a reabsorption of everything into the surface and plunges us into this stupified, hyperreal euphoria that we could not exchange for anything else.”
This process was what Barti was getting at in the Jamaica is Dun Out Here thread. The conversion of the island into a Lilt advert.
One reason I like YouTube is that unlike spotify you can still find things which are not a corporate product and lifestyle advertisement. Street music which is not an audition for radio one xtra. Etc etc.
This is that thread but with a broader remit, inspired by corpsey saying in the Marvel movies thread
"“Today what we are experiencing is the absorption of all virtual modes of expression into that of advertising. Advertising effaces any support and any depth, signifying a reabsorption of everything into the surface and plunges us into this stupified, hyperreal euphoria that we could not exchange for anything else.”
This process was what Barti was getting at in the Jamaica is Dun Out Here thread. The conversion of the island into a Lilt advert.
One reason I like YouTube is that unlike spotify you can still find things which are not a corporate product and lifestyle advertisement. Street music which is not an audition for radio one xtra. Etc etc.