Music led culture by giving the new palpable form, a capacity now lost

Evidence

Music became the centre of the culture because it was consistently capable of giving the new a palpable form; it was a kind of lab that focused and intensified the convulsions that culture was undergoing. There’s no sense of the new anywhere now. And that’s a political and a technological issue, not a problem that’s just internal to music. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1241

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what specific political and technological causes does Fisher propose for the loss of the new in music — and which later writers extended this claim?
• XREF: connects to: Each cultural form is inevitably replaced by its successor — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 838; Communication devices only recently displaced music technology as the emblem of the technological present — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2298

Broader Connections

• Each cultural form is inevitably replaced by its successor #exemplifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 838