Eminem is more revolutionary than Steve Albini (duh)
The second part of my essay on counter-culture is up at DRL. It deals with the possibility (or, I should say, impossibility) of making any contemporary subculture into a counter-culture. Also, here are a couple of phrase I want to work into the essay, to give you an idea of the excitements to come:
Avril Lavigne will burn down more McDonalds than Kathleen Hanna — The society of the specatcle is a society of simulacra: if the culture industry is so obliging as to provide us with simulacra of rebellion, it is our duty to turn them into real rebels.
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Today Adorno sounds … what’s the word? Quaint? With his fusty fulminations against jazz (oh, wait a second — the word’s ‘racist’, isn’t it).
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At your next Reclaim the Streets, knock the techno on the head and play some S Club Juniors. Get the 8 year olds out on the streets with you.
Also, I’ll be developing a new anarchist tactic: the Britney Bloc.
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