A Realist Project

Anyone who was around in the early nineties remembers the rapid viral like transformation dance music was on, New genres were born and died in a matter of months, it was a total moment with no self regulation. As Mark Leckey says to some extent we were all there and have our memories.

Mark Fisher was right that culture in the last 20 years has stopped changing in this manner, there is no longer a driving force of change through cultural production, no revolutionary Avant guard. This driving force this spirit moved out of the production of culture itself and into new methods of containing cultural production, The internet, social media. These places had that driving force of change, the utopia of the new, at the start of the 21st century. Now these places are realist projects, there reach is now far wider and there power greater than the revolution of culture that came before. They are McKenzie Warks vectoralist class.

This realist vectoralist entity that now surrounds culture literally owns the means of production but not the content, they don’t need to, they are far more powerful, they are now the wealthiest people on the planet. Yet they have no visible ideological output, culture defines itself and the society it was based in through its production, Cultural containers attempt to not be defined by the cultural content they are providing, simply allowing there construct to act like a mirror transparent to the user.

This formation of space where the power of the container is stronger than its contents is not going to go away…