
Aftershocks
The End of Style Culture
Steve Beard(Author)
Wallflower Press
Published in July 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-1-903364-24-6 (ISBN)
Description
These popcult essays mix style-magazine think pieces, celebrity interviews, street-level cyber-theory and slipstream media memoir to offer a readymade archive of tomorrow's strip-mall culture. Its postmodern approach to reportage allows subjects like new media art, Terence McKenna at Megatripolis, Diana-gate, slasher movies, virtual capitalism, New Puritan transsexuals, Afrofuturism, and the cult of the serial killer to bleed into each other. Aftershocks features definitive interviews with Brian Eno, Michael Moorcock, the Orb's Alex Paterson, Reservoir Dogs-era Harvey Keitel, James Kelman, Robert Anton Wilson, Hakim Bey, Stelarc, and Naked Lunch-era David Cronenberg. Also includes previously unpublished material.
These popcult essays mix style-magazine think pieces, celebrity interviews, street-level cyber-theory and slipstream media memoir to offer a readymade archive of tomorrow's strip-mall culture. Its postmodern approach to reportage allows subjects like new media art, Terence McKenna at Megatripolis, Diana-gate, slasher movies, virtual capitalism, New Puritan transsexuals, Afrofuturism, and the cult of the serial killer to bleed into each other. Aftershocks features definitive interviews with Brian Eno, Michael Moorcock, the Orb's Alex Paterson, Reservoir Dogs-era Harvey Keitel, James Kelman, Robert Anton Wilson, Hakim Bey, Stelarc, and Naked Lunch-era David Cronenberg.
These popcult essays mix style-magazine think pieces, celebrity interviews, street-level cyber-theory and slipstream media memoir to offer a readymade archive of tomorrow's strip-mall culture. Its postmodern approach to reportage allows subjects like new media art, Terence McKenna at Megatripolis, Diana-gate, slasher movies, virtual capitalism, New Puritan transsexuals, Afrofuturism, and the cult of the serial killer to bleed into each other. Aftershocks features definitive interviews with Brian Eno, Michael Moorcock, the Orb's Alex Paterson, Reservoir Dogs-era Harvey Keitel, James Kelman, Robert Anton Wilson, Hakim Bey, Stelarc, and Naked Lunch-era David Cronenberg.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-903364-24-6 (9781903364246)
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Persons
Steve Beard is the author of the ambient novel Digital Leatherette and the artist's book Perfumed Head. Paul Dave is senior lecturer in film and visual theory at the University of East London.