The Naff

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What is the relationship between coolness and naffness in pop history.

A version of it wd describe pop history as essentially a story of a thread of coolness constantly besieged by naffness. This seems deeply unsatisfactory to me.

Comments

Re: haha LOOK!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they are on a different graph entirely, the curve of CRITICISM???

Re: haha LOOK!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

but artists and non-critics are also critics in the sense that they have opinions of the activities of others -- the curve is not created by a specific class of agents or media, so much as the broad agreement on the stability of the curve in a particular era is signalled by statement of same, by class of agents and/or media (if consumers of meda and readers of critics all disagree, then stability is collapsing)