Post-punk’s critical stance is not repressed but made unthinkable by late capitalist pop culture.
Evidence
Stirring up the ghost of post-punk cannot but be an act, an intervention in cultural politics — since post-punk not only judges contemporary pop culture (harshly), it brings back the legitimacy, the necessity of being judgemental, of having some criteria (non-musical criteria, non-hedonic criteria) for enjoyment. Such a position is not repressed by contemporary pop culture (=the cultural logic of late capitalism), it is made unthinkable by it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1006
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies a signature Fisher move: the claim that certain positions are not censored but rendered cognitively unavailable.
- XREF: connects to: Postmodernism is a reflex of capitalism’s modification, not a new social order. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 13; Post-punk’s critical antagonism has been replaced by pop’s PR-driven complacency — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1090; Post-punk saw entertainment culture’s claim to be apolitical as deeply ideological. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1277 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Post-punk’s critical antagonism has been replaced by pop’s PR-driven complacency
#contradicts(0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1090 - Postmodernism is a reflex of capitalism’s modification, not a new social order.
#expands(0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 13 - Post-punk’s conceptual-cultural richness was a brief historical contingency
#qualifies(0.80) - Postmodernism is inseparable from everyday capitalist life, not autonomous art.
#expands(0.78) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 422 - Post-punk saw entertainment culture’s claim to be apolitical as deeply ideological.
#corroborates(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1277 - Post-punk treated culture as inherently political beyond parliamentary politics.
#corroborates(0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1276