k-punk: Viva resentment! - The Diigo Meta page

• 22 Jun 07
  

  Leigh Phillips

  resentment

• 08 Jun 07
  

  barrysaunders

  For those of us who weren't brought up into high culture, Popism's calls to be always cheerful about mass culture are very much like being told (by our class superiors, natch) to be content with our lot.

  pop cultural studies culture politics

• 31 May 07
  

  Sam Kitonyi

  criticism marxism philosophy rockism theory

  • It seems to me that the elevation of the Paris Hilton LP to a central object of study reveals the double bind of Popism: either it has to be admitted that the interest is motivated by a reactive flouting of what are taken to be rockist hierarchies, or it is must be claimed that the LP is being assessed on its own merits, because it is 'good', in which case all the problematic issues of evaluation and canonicity are raised again. Notice that I'm not saying that the LP was bad; like most record buyers I was indifferent to it. What I am questioning is whether the Popist affirmation of the LP could have happened without a rockist big Other to scandalise.

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