Museum-culture commemoration without new viewers is a cemetery

Evidence

A culture which takes place only in museums is already exhausted. A culture of commemoration is a cemetery. No cultural object can retain its power when there are no longer new eyes to see it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 565

Categorization

• SEED: Directly underwrites an essay on heritage culture, museumification, and why commemoration without living contestation is death — ties to contemporary debates about canon and ‘cancel culture’.
• XREF: connects to: Mainstream rock festivals now function as necrophiliac museums of past forms — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 791

Broader Connections

• Mainstream rock festivals now function as necrophiliac museums of past forms #epitomizes (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 791