Thus the mechanisms of an online copy culture based on fandom were applied in a live setting. Perhaps in 2011, copying finally became the predominant cultural technique – and pop a culture of versions, speaking more of the need for appropriative imitation and less of an attempt to bring back the ‘genuine’ and the ‘authentic’ of days gone by. Beyond retro, there’s a whole lotta repro.
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Frieze Magazine | Dominikus Muller | Music
A nice pithy take on Retromania. I really need to get around to reading Marcus Boon’s In Praise of Copying. Marcus is a boss.
This is why a project like Aaron Rose’s Collage Culture (an anti-collage/curation/appropriation polemic, despite its title), with its slogans like “STRIVE TO LEAD AN EXISTANCE [sic] OF TOTAL INNOVATION” is so idiotically misguided. The cure for our aesthetic and social ills is NOT a return to modernist innovation.
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