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Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age
"Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age" belongs to the public history line where accelerationism is sorted into usable branches, slogans, and retrospective explanations.
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Definition · paragraph 22
The concept of occulture, for instance, was absorbed by TOPY after Dwyer defined it. In this way, TOPY were seen to harbour the same relation to PTV as the reformed punk zines did to ‘popular music’ – as collaborators in a flattened-out information space.
Stakes · paragraph 57
Bland Benjamin (2018) ‘Don’t do as you’re told, do as you think’: The transgressive zine culture of industrial music in the 1970s and 1980s. In: Subcultures Network (eds) Ripped, Torn and Cut: Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976 . Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp.
Stakes · paragraph 8
Keywords alt-right , Cybernetic Culture Research Unit , industrial culture , internet history , Nick Land , subcultural politics
History · paragraph 14
This article explores this question by analysing the changing media ideologies and aesthetics that developed around British post-punk zines in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, leading to the early subcultural embrace of the worldwide web. A key stepping-stone from past to present subcultures is the aforementioned Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), whose lead figure Nick Land became an intellectual figurehead of the neoreaction subculture, considered a precursor to the alt-right ( Kirchick, 2016 ).
History · paragraph 115
Worley Matthew (2015) Punk, politics and British (fan)zines, 1976–84: ‘While the world was dying, did you wonder why?’ History Workshop Journal 79(1): 76–106.
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