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[Perry Noid]

I just finished the new Gibson book, The Peripheral, not too long ago and I
can't help but think of his "neo-primitivist curators"--the profession
itself is a sort of evolution of the coolhunter--when encountering this
cannibal cultural appropriation of the past. I'm sure there is an article
out there somewhere linking postmodernism, late-capitalism, and hipsterdom
though I doubt it's any good.

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 1:05 AM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Remembering the late seventies and early eighties gets weirder every
> year for me. Currently we have fads for little-c media, 'paperad'
> samizdat zines and hand-decorated, limited edition cassette tapes
> being traded through the mails, all being produced by kids who haven't
> any personal context for Octobriana or Tellus. While I may miss the
> old world I take heart knowing it has odd little dopplegangers
> scampering undergound, even now. I'll take scarcity over industry
> whereever I can find it.
>
> On 11/26/15, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> > Nostalgia for small-c capitalism:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5lq_FIjbOo
> >
> >
> > Am 25.11.2015 um 23:26 schrieb John Bailey:
> >
> >> I'm definitely on the side of local stores over Amazon but it seems to
> >> me that this is a battle between small-c capitalism and big-c
> >> Capitalism. The former invokes nostalgia and a sense of folkiness or
> >> authenticity as a sales tactic in opposition to the new monopoly
> >> models, summoning a sense of the time you knew your butcher's name and
> >> the bakery owner would throw in an extra bun when she saw your kid
> >> smiling.
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