Electronic pop’s lost link to avant-garde art reads now as a requiem

Evidence

His Arcangel essay retains a certain amount of this ambivalence, but, in its gnomic brevity, it is far more suggestive than the often tiresome Words And Music, which felt at times like being trapped inside an interminable series of iPod playlists. … Perhaps in spite of itself, the text ends up reading less like a justification of twenty-first-century popular culture and its modes of consumption and more like a requiem for a past moment of popular modernism, a lost circuit between pop, new technological developments and the avant-garde. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1223

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Fisher’s wider K-Punk themes of hauntology and the lost futures of postpunk modernism he writes about throughout this collection. — connects to: Late-2000s electronic pop continues a mode of synthpop curtailed in the mid-1980s — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1244; Contemporary pop’s return to modernism may overcome the postmodernism it recycles — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 983; Contemporary pop is trapped between a vacuous present and an unrecoverable past — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1314 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Contemporary pop’s return to modernism may overcome the postmodernism it recycles #responds-to (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 983
• Old electronic music no longer ages because the culture stopped progressing #corroborates (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1237
• Late-2000s electronic pop continues a mode of synthpop curtailed in the mid-1980s #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1244
• Contemporary pop is trapped between a vacuous present and an unrecoverable past #corroborates (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1314