A culture stripped of surrealism renders banality as its cosmology

Evidence

“Wattle and Daub” gives us nothing less than a psychedelic-surrealist portrait of a country deprived of psychedelia and surrealism. A world without surprise, an entirely domesticated universe, banality as cosmology: “Let’s colonise the other planets, fill them with bitter and dry roasted peanuts, pigeons and oven chips.” The dead world of middle-aged Britain’s living rooms; the cheery veneer of advertising’s ever-smiling, glowing-faced families turned inside out. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1346

Categorization

• SEED: The idea of ‘a world without surprise’ and domesticated banality as cosmology could anchor a piece on how advertising’s cheeriness masks a dead domesticity.
• XREF: connects to: A hegemonic realism retroactively erases cultural possibilities it cannot absorb — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1009; Art that claims identity with reality doubly obscures mediation — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 255

Broader Connections

• Art that claims identity with reality doubly obscures mediation #complicates (0.72) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 255
• A hegemonic realism retroactively erases cultural possibilities it cannot absorb #contradicts (0.70) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1009