Refusing to chase current trends makes art more present than trend-chasing does
Evidence
The very refusal to strain for contemporaneity makes the album far more now than it would have been if it engaged in an unseemly pursuit of street cool. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1195
Categorization
- XREF: Typical Fisher hauntological/pop-theory move; connects to his arguments about the ‘slow cancellation of the future’ in which staying current with technics produces datedness rather than novelty. — connects to: Trend-riding content sustains audience anticipation around daily posts — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame…, 141; Rapid trend turnover prevents cultural movements from cohering — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 18; Trend forecasters can deliberately seed aesthetic revivals that retroactively define eras (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Rapid trend turnover prevents cultural movements from cohering
#complicates(0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 18 - Low creative barriers cause rapid novelty decay in cultural artifacts
#corroborates(0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 696 - Trend forecasters can deliberately seed aesthetic revivals that retroactively define eras
#complicates(0.72)