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[Jamie McKittrick]

Instead of Civilised Saturday, I propose Markup Monday.

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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