Cultural loss manifests as invisible psychopathology in those denied alternatives

Evidence

But the achievements of post-punk can be appreciated, negatively, in what culture now lacks. Go into a roomful of teenagers and look at their self-scarred arms, the anti-depressants that sedate them, the quiet desperation in their eyes. They literally do not know what it is they are missing. What they don’t have is what post-punk provided… A way out… and a reason to get out… — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1023

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ch32-33 claims about subordinate classes believing in their incapacity and external inspection becoming internal surveillance. — connects to: Schizophrenic disjunction as cultural style loses its morbid content and yields euphoria. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 116; Postmodernism transformed the modernist experience of self-loss into a celebrated utopia of unbelonging — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 271
• SEED: Angle: the political unconscious of self-harm — what collective ‘way out and reason to get out’ was foreclosed when post-punk died, evidenced in rates of adolescent self-injury.

Broader Connections

• Schizophrenic disjunction as cultural style loses its morbid content and yields euphoria. #exemplifies (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 116
• Postmodernism transformed the modernist experience of self-loss into a celebrated utopia of unbelonging #exemplifies (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 271