12/14/2023 0 Comments Mosh pit meme broken hand![]() ![]() I prefer substance, but style can carry it a long way. I don't have a problem with emphasizing style. Note, I don't have any problem with style. Style over substance where the style is presented as only a schematic. This is something quite strange to me: genre sans art, form sans content. ![]() People invent new genres and aesthetics and post about them, and then act as if they're a thing. This is, honestly, too much.Ī big driver of this has been Tumblr and other, similar, social media sites. Lately, though, I've noticed a huge proliferation here: dieselpunk, atompunk, solarpunk, seapunk, hopepunk, lunarpunk, candlepunk, clockpunk, witchpunk – Edgar has even joked about a steampunk derivative called “Slavpunk” where all technology is powered by samovars and misery. The first of these were cyberpunk and steampunk. It's always brought me a great deal of amusement that “-punk” is the preferred suffix for new speculative fiction genres. The story is the Rube Goldberg interaction that arises here. Consider a capable but fairly normal person who wishes to be largely left alone consider some powerful agency or circumstance that will not do that. Don’t me.) In narrative media, this tends towards a somewhat mythic structure (similar to the thing I called “the millennial monomyth” a while back), a paradigm that all -punk stories usually follow, similar to 19th century realism or naturalism in many ways. In the political compass sense, it tends towards the bottom or “libertarian” end (caveat: people who claim to be libertarian in the US political sense are not and never will be punk. In fiction, and broadly in aesthetics, punk is largely anti-authoritarian but non-revolutionary. So I have a lot of thoughts on what “punk” means. Still, I enjoy the music and the message, and I feel justified now that I'm getting older and see a lot of aging punks adopt my more understated approach to dressing for shows. I've joked once or twice that I was the Tom Wolfe of the KC punk scene. I've never really adopted the aesthetic – I don't really like wearing graphic tee shirts, I've never attached a stud to anything, and it's only recently that I've begun to style my hair in any way. ![]() For the majority of my life, I've listened to punk music. ![]()
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