
What Else ? asks George Clooney on all TV screens, well.... not much really, fashion designers, in menswear especially, keep rebooting the goth and post punk imagery until total exhaustion, while the other feed on anecdotal time patches, sixties here, seventies there, more eighties all over, a hint of nineties, naughties not quite yet.... All previous subcultures are now available on high streets shops, in television advertising, used and re-used for all means, making possible the fun and scary fact that my grand mother knows exactly who are Cradle Of Filth, Afrika Bambaataa and Morrisey...Ok, I might be pushing it a bit far there, but am I really ?!
If the post modern era saw the end of the utopia, ours is seeing the death of subcultures.
If the post modern era saw the end of the utopia, ours is seeing the death of subcultures.
it's not the death of subcultures, it is the death of counter-cultures, because there is no one dominant culture anymore.
ReplyDeletesubcultures are weak at the moment (specially visually speaking) but will thrive again as they do not plan to conquer the world.
malcolm mclaren is dead, long live yoko ono.