The ruins of rave culture mark sites where neoliberal redevelopment erased dreams of collectivity
Evidence
‘The London I conjure up…is imbued with a sense of mourning,’ Ford says. ‘These are the liminal zones where the free party rave scene once illuminated the bleak swathes of marshland and industrial estates.’ So many dreams of collectivity have died in neoliberal London. A new kind of human being was supposed to live here, but that all had to be cleared away so that the restoration could begin. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 482
Categorization
- XREF: Pairs with Fisher’s concept of ‘the slow cancellation of the future’ and the mourning of lost futures that anchors the book. — connects to: Nostalgia for lost community displaces analysis of its present causes — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 198; Neoliberalism alters what culture gets made and how it is distributed — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 20; Deindustrial ruin produces nostalgia for places not yet fallen — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 396 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism alters what culture gets made and how it is distributed
#expands(0.82) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 20 - Nostalgia for lost community displaces analysis of its present causes
#expands(0.78) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 198 - Deindustrial ruin produces nostalgia for places not yet fallen
#qualifies(0.75) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 396 - Neoliberalism’s durability rests on fusing the economic with the cultural
#corroborates(0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 298 - Neoliberal ideology, not market forces, caused cultural resignation and stagnation.
#corroborates(0.72) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 849