Rapid trend turnover prevents cultural movements from cohering

Evidence

Some critics argue that trends now move too quickly to cohere into lasting movements, what music critic Simon Reynolds described as a “paradoxical combination of speed and standstill.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 18

Categorization

• XREF: Simon Reynolds’ concept resonates with the reader’s own ‘omnivore monoculture’ spectrum where everyone samples everything and nothing holds. — connects to: Refusing to chase current trends makes art more present than trend-chasing does — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1195; Fast-moving cultures depend on stable cultural anchors to absorb innovation — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 288