British dance music’s political energy turned apolitical or libertarian rather than leftist

Evidence

Sadly, it didn’t work out that way. Rose was absolutely right that most of the innovative energy in British music culture would come from dance music, which was about to enjoy its most fecund period ever. But the atmosphere around rave, jungle and garage tended towards the apolitical, the libertarian or the capitalist. The alliance of the left with the new technologies, energies, infrastructures and forms of desire that Rose saw emerging was to be very short-lived. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1366

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the reader’s general concern with how subcultural energy gets absorbed or deflected — compare to accounts of punk’s co-optation and of modernity’s lost futures. — connects to: Neoliberalism appropriated dancefloor freedom while the left ceded it — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1386

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism appropriated dancefloor freedom while the left ceded it #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1386