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“Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.”
― A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
― A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
“All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.”
― Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
― Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
“For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.”
― Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
― Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
“In his dreadful lassitude and objectless rage, Cobain seemed to have give wearied voice to the despondency of the generation that had come after history, whose every move was anticipated, tracked, bought and sold before it had even happened. Cobain knew he was just another piece of spectacle, that nothing runs better on MTV than a protest against MTV; knew that his every move was a cliché scripted in advance, knew that even realising it is a cliché. The impasse that paralysed Cobain in precisely the one that Fredric Jameson described: like postmodern culture in general, Cobain found himself in ‘a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, where all that is left is to imitate dead styles in the imaginary museum’.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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