The twenty-first century has failed to produce a culture of its own
Evidence
Mark Fisher: Well, the overall theme of the book is the disappearance of the future, at least in culture. For me, the failure of the twenty-first century is that the twenty-first century has yet to really start — so, in a way, it’s a disappearance of both the present and the future. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2285
Categorization
- XREF: Relates to the wider ‘missing future / hauntology’ argument and cultural deceleration themes. — connects to: Twenty-first century culture is abundant in volume but lacks its own symbolic innovations — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 841; Culture has not undergone a genuine paradigm shift since the sixties — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 382; Cultural sterility is a culture’s inability to produce the genuinely new — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 561 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Twenty-first century culture is abundant in volume but lacks its own symbolic innovations
#expands(0.95) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 841 - Critics already observe that 21st-century culture has stalled into monolithism
#corroborates(0.95) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 15 - Twenty-first-century culture produced nothing radically new enough to displace prior icons.
#corroborates(0.95) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 843 - Culture has not undergone a genuine paradigm shift since the sixties
#corroborates(0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 382 - Cultural sterility is a culture’s inability to produce the genuinely new
#expands(0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 561 - The 21st century’s signature is the collapse of cultural invention into entertainment and profit
#expands(0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 12 - Twenty-first-century digital culture conceals a deep, quiet hopelessness
#qualifies(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1326