Once-despised urban liminal spaces get emptied of menace by corporate media culture

Evidence

This liminal territory, cast in a negative light in the 70s was recuperated by MTV and boring media types in the 90s. The Westway became the backdrop for Gorillaz imbecility, bland drum & bass record sleeves and photo shoots in corporate skate parks. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 469

Categorization

• SHARE: For a friend into British cultural history of the Westway/Ballard — a tight concrete case of liminal-space recuperation into advertising backdrop.
• XREF: connects to: Corporate media isolates people to invalidate their shared discontent — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1573; Urban plasticity liberates identity yet invites totalitarian control — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 87; Corporations have displaced literary fiction as the cultural avant-garde — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 153

Broader Connections

• Corporate media isolates people to invalidate their shared discontent #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1573
• Urban plasticity liberates identity yet invites totalitarian control #expands (0.72) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 87
• Corporations have displaced literary fiction as the cultural avant-garde #corroborates (0.70) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 153