sadmanbarty
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There is a very real danger of acting in such a way that instead of the assembly line being sonified, we humanise it.
that's absolutely brilliant.
There is a very real danger of acting in such a way that instead of the assembly line being sonified, we humanise it.
capitalist realism isn't something to be rejected, but embraced.
capitalist realism isn't something to be rejected, but embraced.
"What are things that advertising cannot be -"
"What are things that advertising cannot be -"
conspiracy theorists have a fixation of gender-subversion as being the workings of the new world order. trans-genderism as some sort of preparation for cloning.
from that kind of perspective you could make the case that androgyny encourages men to spend more money; buying clothes and makeup they otherwise wouldn't. it correlates with the fact that pop produces more androgynous artists than the underground does.
speaking not for or as an individual or community but as the voice of capital itself. A mocking supernatural voice which speaks through it's chosen representatives
"What are things that advertising cannot be -"
Virtually the whole history of recorded music, with a few special exceptions has taken place within capitalist economies but there's a risk here of losing the initial focus. Things tend to get very hazy and nebulous when the word capitalism gets bandied about. There's not a human on earth who knows what it actually is.
that's an interesting point that actually.
take my thing about kartel's 'cake soap', it's a song specifically designed to market his own product and yet it is unquestionably personal. it's him. there's nothing stepford wives about it.
"What are things that advertising cannot be -"
I mean no one has ever provided a useful definition. There's no clarity and no consensus. But there os already a thread dedicated to trying (and abjectly failing) to define capitalism. We can revive it but let's just bracket that discussion for now. There's lots pf other points I need to address. You've said a whole bunch of stuff, crowl, bart....
I think it's more that I've heard it all before. How is the chassy of Carly Rae Jepsen call me maybe any different to eurotrance? it isn't. it's hopelessly out of date. It's an exercise in reduction to the point where the essence becomes less minimalism but a literal reduction of possibilities. Otherwise I'm into quite a bit of rubbery, glossy 80s electro soul, which was certainly commercial and co-opted (which genre isn't? 92 hardcore techno and midwest drop bass acid...) but otherwise...
There is a very real danger of acting in such a way that instead of the assembly line being sonified, we humanise it. and that is basically strength through joy, essentially.
As for capitalist realism. I don't really care much for it as the cellular commodity subjects everything, even our toiletries and defecation to its logic.
But I am sympathetic to the argument that we must accept capitalist realism. but so what? it's like playboy magazine. what's the point? eventually that acceptance brings back to step one where all your neurons are maxed out.
Conversely the most popular form of dance music in the 90s was handbag-progressive-discohouse. It's quite interesting that there has been no real treatment of it, yet the beatles have been bled dry when that was for the most part a white cannonical thing.