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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

POPTIMISM: THE DEATH OF POP CRITICISM

O Rly?

Caution to byebyepride: may contain Adorno citations.

What a lot of posts today!

Comments

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

This guy is responding to an IDEA he has of what he thinks "poptimism" probably is like, but his idea only has a shaky relationship to the thing itself and how it actually plays itself out in the world. Most self-described poptimists I know are actually very attracted to the questions he claims they totally avoid re: capital, ideology, culture and subculture, but they also don't believe their (or his) answers to such questions necessarily invalidate the worth and meaning of the subject; plus, they're interested in many other kinds of questions as well.