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Apr. 16th, 2007 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katekatSo I just got my mass & pop culture paper back and made the mistake of conflating a discussion about youth subcultures in post-war britian with punk - and my paper was knocked down a grade because of it. I made the mistake of lumping a discussion of Teddy Boys and skinheads together under one title and made it in front of a professor whose main area of specification is punk.
yep. stupid. stupid. I just know not much about the era and frankly didn't have dates associated with this stuff and honestly thought the discussion WAS about punk even though it never says it.
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yep. stupid. stupid. I just know not much about the era and frankly didn't have dates associated with this stuff and honestly thought the discussion WAS about punk even though it never says it.
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Date: 2007-04-17 12:08 am (UTC)Needless Optimism brought to you by Mish.
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Date: 2007-04-17 04:19 am (UTC)i will make it up on the final paper, i hope!
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Date: 2007-04-17 01:43 am (UTC)Me, I've long been working on just how something that combined Italian suits (via black American jazz musicians) and scooters, French film and haircuts, and American (black American, at that) and Jamaican muisc became quintessentially British ...
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Date: 2007-04-17 04:21 am (UTC)and it is weird how the brits do the claiming thing - as if nothing and no where else existed after, you know?
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Date: 2007-04-18 02:31 pm (UTC)http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/gibson_rocketradio.shtml
One might perhaps invoke a certain modernist--esp. Joycean, but also, uh, Gertrude Steinian (I susepct she doesn't get nearly enough credit)--line in such neologisms as well, but ...
And science fiction was of course nigh unto litter-bearing when it comes to such terminology, having constantly to invent lanaguage to represent the emergent, nonexistent, or unrepresentable (the SF sublime, I recall this being addressed, for example, in one of the introductions to Hartwell and Cramer's SF anthology, The Ascent of Wonder).
I'm curious as to how you deploy (or not) that British Cultural Studies marxism here--via Jameson or somesuch? Certainly, cyberpunk is all about corporatism, commodification ...
I recently reread (if i ever properly read it in the first place, a quarter of a century ago or so) Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants (1953). A future dominated by advertising concerns. The corporatization/commodification of language, politics, the body, et al. If cyberpunk can be said to have a granddaddy ...
(Pohl published a sequel, The Merchants' War, in 1984, both are bound together as Venus, Inc. as well).
By the way, if you write to Birmingham, they'll STILL (or did, as of a few years ago) send you purple mimeographed copies of those papers, cheap. I picked up Dick Hebdige's on mod for posterity ...
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Date: 2007-04-20 02:54 pm (UTC)monropolitan at yahoo dot com
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Reminds me, I've a couple hunnert pages of an Australian thesis on automata to read, so ...
But don't worry about debt, or eternal, I ain't no credit card company (nor do I play one on teevee), so ...
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