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Ellen Willis
Ellen Willis
# 46
“A social and psychic revolution of almost inconceivable magnitude”: Popular Culture’s Interrupted Accelerationist Dreams
Mark Fisher
We live in a moment of profound cultural deceleration. The first two decades of the current century have so far been marked by an extraordinary sense of inertia, repetition, and retrospection, uncannily in keeping with the prophetic analyses of postmodern culture that Fredric Jameson began to develop in the 1980s. Tune the radio to the station playing the most contemporary music, and you will not encounter anything that you couldn’t have heard in the 1990s. Jameson’s claim that postmodernism…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2013
Category
Music, Capitalism
Subjects
Accelerationism, Subcultures & Countercultures, Art Criticism