Punk changed the world by puncturing everyday ideological reality, not by revolution
Evidence
In fact, Marcus argues, the Pistols and those who followed them did change the world, not by starting a war or a revolution, but by intervening in everyday life. What had seemed natural and eternal — and which now appears to be so again — was suddenly exposed as a tissue of ideological presuppositions. This is a vision of politics as a kind of puncturing, a rupturing of the accepted structure of reality. The puncture would produce a portal — an escape route from the second-nature habits of everyday life into a new labyrinth of associations and connections, where politics would connect with art and theory in unexpected ways. When songs ceased to be entertainment, they could be anything. These punctures felt like abductions. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1282
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘puncture/portal’ politics resonates with Fisher’s hauntological vocabulary of ruptures and escape routes recurring across his corpus. — connects to: Punk inverted 68 by repudiating pleasure and exposing interiority as ideology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1018; Art changes the world by puncturing everyday ideological reality, not by winning battles