Mass pop can briefly host counter-consensual collectivities before Kapital absorbs it

Evidence

Pop could function differently in post-punk because, at that time, it was the space which most readily leant itself to the production of a counter-consensual collectivity. Post-punk was an awakening from Kapital’s “consensual hallucination”, a means of channeling, externalising and propagating disquiet and discrepancy. It provided a crack in the way the social represented itself; or rather, exposed that crack. What the social would have us believe is dysfunction, grumbling, failure suddenly became the sound of the “outside of everything”. Records, interviews, the music press, were the means by which contact could be made between affects, concepts, commitments that would previously have been locked into private space. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1022

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pop’s ability to host counter-cultural experimentation may be historically spent — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1021; Nonconformist culture gets co-opted by mass-distribution before it can reach anyone — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 228; Poptimist-era pop claimed radical cachet without challenging commodification

Broader Connections

• Nonconformist culture gets co-opted by mass-distribution before it can reach anyone #qualifies (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 228
• Pop’s ability to host counter-cultural experimentation may be historically spent #qualifies (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1021
• Poptimist-era pop claimed radical cachet without challenging commodification #complicates (0.78)