[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Was the new economy the punk rock of the last decade?

["pavu.com.ctgr" <ctgr@free.fr>]

hoo,

we see, David, that you've firely beat'n down the avant-garde !
and it's a f-kin' large stepp to enjambe.

now ...
are you ready for the En-gArde ???

http://pavu.com
-/ forget the avan-garde ! get ready for the En-gArde ! /-
sharp swords to be hired to croSS very soon so ... train and practice
...!  ---- all of yu !

David Garcia a *crit :
> 
> Was the new economy the punk rock of the last decade?
> 
> Punk was the movement that finally demystified being a rockstar.
> Traditional musical skills of even the most basic kind were ditched. the
> paradigmatic punk band would only need (accompanied of course with the right
> attitude and or haircut) to thrash away at their instruments and concoct a
> bold sloganising dittie 'anarchy in the UK' 'God Save the Queen'. All you
> needed to be a rock star was energy (lots of it) attitude (even more of it).
> And for a few months some of them were right!
> 
> well for a while I've had this de ja vu thing of thinking I was back in the
> late 70's when every one I knew seemed to be in a band but this time round
> everyone has a dot.company. Types of people who  generation ago would have
> talked about 'selling out' are now ONLY selling out, to the highest bidder.
> Money is cool, money is the new black, youth culture has organised itself
> around money as never before. Money doesn't buy culture it is culture. Just
> as once you didn't need to hold a tune to be a rock star this time round you
> don't have to make a profit to be a billionaire. So what if its only for a
> week. In the future will every one be a millionaire? Yes but only for 15
> minutes.
> 
> So can we learn anything from what happened when the punk bubble burst?
> When the emperors clothes were only held together with safety pins. Well
> interestingly punk never went away. It is still with us. From the wild
> speciation of those heady days a surprising amount made the transition into
> the pop version of viability and the DIY approach to fashion, music and art
> is still visible-particularly in Brit. art from T.Emin to D.Hurst the 'in
> you face' combination the  entrepreneurial punk ethic/aesthetic remains with
> us and can still be re.freshing.  In much of indy pop culture. the
> territories opened up turned out to be real and the insights and procedures
> are continually  re-purposed and re-mixed for new eras. And when you see
> footage of the sex pistols in full frenzy you realise that they were even
> better than we thought at the time. Whatever they could or couldn't do they
> were a bloody good band
> 
> I have only one fear of pursuing this spurious analogy and that is that punk
> was followed by the pathetic...sigh.... 'New Romantics'... sigh...
> 
> Are we in for the New Romantic economy? Geert Lovink please put this on the
> agenda of your conference so that we me know how it will look. Personally
> I'm waiting for the grunge economy. I'm told it won't be long.
> 
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