xenogoth
looking for an exit
For someone who might be trying to start a scenius-type community, or informal thinktank type thing... what're you think are some of the ingredients the CCRU scene had that really got things going? What'd they do right?
Doing it in the 90s.
lol! what version said. but i suppose what all the people involved in the ccru shared was having their fingers collectively on the pulse of the moment they lived in. and a sort of twisted monastic vibe where people were collectively engaged in cultural production that is hard to imagine taking place these days, at least in that form.
if the ccru existed today, it would probably be a tik tok collective plugging weird start ups with occultural trend data and mining bitcoin using power siphoned off the Greggs downstairs.
a pretty cursed image but then so much of what they found interesting has been appropriated by the forces they hoped to critique.
in that sense, it's not really possible to learn from them for today. the pressure-cooker conditions that produced the ccru don't (and perhaps couldn't) exist but there's surely space for something like it. not knowing what that would look like is sort of the point, i guess, and it sure ain't gonna emerge from well trodden ground.
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