Aftershocks: The End of Style Culture by Steve Beard

by Steve Beard

Aftershocks is a hybrid selection of popcult essays which mixes style magazine think pieces, celebrity interviews, street-level cyber-theory and media memoir to offer a ready-made meditation on style-culture and the political positions built upon it. Its postmodern approach to reportage allows subjects like new media art, conspiracy theorists, Dianagate, slasher movies, virtual capitalism, Afro-futurism, music and drug culture and the cult of the serial killer to bleed into each other. Interviews with such key figures of the period as Harvey Keitel, David Cronenberg, Brian Eno, Alex Paterson, Michael Moorcock, James Kelman, Hakim Bey and Stelarc sit alongside much previously unpublished material, resulting in a vital snapshot of the culture of metropolitan Britain in the 1990s.

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First published April 15, 2002

About the author

Steve Beard is the author of various speculative novels and experimental fictions, including Meat Puppet Cabaret. He has been called “an uncannily accurate interpreter of Paul Virilio.”