ext_281244 ([identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists2009-05-11 10:40 am

Energy Flush

http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2009/05/culture-technology-energy-rave

I was going to do an FT post on this but my day is filling up rapidly so I thought I'd throw it to the wolves here instead.

[identity profile] cis.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
from what i've read i think gaming would be not a counter-argt but a definite backup! [livejournal.com profile] petronia explains it a lot better than i could.

though maybe k-punk would be against gaming anyway as even the super interactive stuff is still pretty top-down (it's a lot harder to go out and make your own mmorpg! unless you do it the old-fashioned way).

[identity profile] cis.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
and by old-fashioned i mean 'retro': you can go out and make yr own text-adventure game or MOO very easily but it's a self-conscious act of revivalism, it's like making a typewriter-and-glue fanzine, or like making compilation tapes with actual c90s, it's not where the kids are at.