Pop’s ability to host counter-cultural experimentation may be historically spent

Evidence

At the time of post-punk, pop could still be a counter-cultural lab (endlessly raided by, but never subordinated to the diktats of, Kapital). It really is not clear whether pop could be that again. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1021

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fisher himself is uncertain (‘It really is not clear’) — worth chasing what evidence would bear on whether pop can still be a counter-cultural laboratory.
• XREF: connects to: Twenty-first-century pop culture stagnated as artists mined the past rather than the future — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 381; Mass pop can briefly host counter-consensual collectivities before Kapital absorbs it — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1022; Contemporary pop is trapped between a vacuous present and an unrecoverable past — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1314

Broader Connections

• Twenty-first-century pop culture stagnated as artists mined the past rather than the future #corroborates (0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 381