Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2353234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Haworth (0000-0003-0587-1465, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 7-8 |
| Pages | 211-235 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02632764221151133 |
| OpenAlex | W4366288341 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Several scholars have noted parallels between the online communicative tactics of the American alt-right and those of industrial musicians in the 1970s and 1980s. This article explores these connections further by analysing the informational media that industrial musicians developed. Between the mid-1980s and 1990s, these zines, handbooks, and websites made a strenuous break with the values of democracy, egalitarianism, and grassroots authenticity that were the default ideological 'mode' of DIY. Where the Californian ideology would centre the summer of love and the politics of the New Left, the zines ambiguously celebrated the nihilistic, authoritarian, and occult vectors of psychedelia - tendencies that have been associated with the late 1960s fate of the counterculture rather than its earlier heyday. The article tracks these themes from Vague magazine and Rapid Eye, to the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit in the 1990s, to neoreaction and the Dark Enlightenment, asking whether communicational utopianism should be considered a blip rather than the internet's default state
Aesthetics · Art · Authoritarianism · Counterculture · Democracy · Egalitarianism · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Grassroots · Ideology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Digital Games and Media · Law · Media, Communication, and Education · Music History and Culture · Philosophy
Notes from underground
Discriminating Data
The International Alt-Right
On Musical Mediation
Kill All Normies
Mencius Moldbug and Neoreaction
New dark age
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
QAnon and the information dark age
Protentions and Retentions of Xenakis and Cage
Punk, Politics and British (fan)zines, 1976-84
Exit immersion
From Microsound to Vaporwave
Feenin
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |