K-punk

Hope is a joy not constant, arising from the idea of something future or past about the issue of which we sometimes doubt.
Fear is a sorrow not constant, arising from the idea of something future or past about the issue of which we sometimes doubt.

fanzines were more significant than the music in that they allowed and produced a whole other mode of contagious activity which destroyed the need for centralised control

It is precisely this whole extraordinary demoralising and depressing original new global space which is the “moment of truth” of postmodernism.16

this semiautonomy of the cultural sphere “has been destroyed by the logic of late capitalism”

Could the only opposition to a culture dominated by what Jameson calls the “nostalgia mode” be a kind of nostalgia for modernism?

the past is everywhere at the same time as the historical sense fades; we have a “society bereft of all historicity” that is simultaneously unable to present anything that is not a reheated version of the past

hyperlinked architecture and its sense of a holistic continuum

That voice — strident, angry, fiercely intelligent, sophisticated and enthusiastic, serious and animated — is so close to the way he actually spoke in person.

PhD work bullies one into the idea that you can’t say anything about any subject until you’ve read every possible authority on it

Owen Hatherley. One