#Hebdige

[hypokeimena]

I was just talking about this "mass handmade cookie cutter product" phenomenon, I was just at a con with four discreet 3d printer booths all of whom had the exact same articulated dragon with roses on it's back? and I literally own one of these at a small scale it's adorable i like the model quite a lot, but like. it's a $4 STL file online, the filaments are $20 each on amazon, once you buy the printer you can just print them in any size forever and charge whatever people will buy because they don't realize the seller has don't like. none of the design or labor involved in producing this item, despite the fact that they did factually make it themselves on a small enough scale that it's not out of place at a handmade maker con. it's odd.

IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I AM INSANE. IT MAKES ME FEEL OUT OF TOUCH WITH CONSENSUS REALITY!!!! like it's not the same as dropshipped items bc i think those should just flatout not be allowed without VERY clear signposting - like if you are selling mass produced notions for other people's creative products you should be legally required to state who your supplier is so ppl can look up how much you're upmarking shit, bc like. there IS a market for "the factory sells those buttons in batches of 100 and i only need 5, so i'll pay a little more for a middleman to have purchased the batch of 100 and handle all the inventory" like that is a service that makes sense. to have exist. but ohhhhh my fucking god.

but what you're describing is really true, i think there's a mix between like... i know small artists who sell stuff at markets and cons and stuff pay a table fee, so they want to make back what they spent on that, and so it makes sense to want to be sure that some of what you're making is going to sell, and maybe it even makes sense to do what you describe - buy an STL file, print off some proven winners.

but from the buyers' perspective, it means that half the art markets i go to are full of enamel pins that say CAT MOM and stickers about liking avocados and pride flag keychains, bc that's what sells, and anything that's original sits unsold - or it's more expensive bc it wasn't mass-produced and had higher labor costs, so it takes longer to move... so ppl stop stocking or bringing it... and it's like if all of this is the same why am i even here. T_T

[holdoncallfailed]

saw a guy on the subway with the most immaculate liberty spikes like 10 inches long perfectly symmetrical not an errant or limp hair in sight...and the other night i saw a gorgeous goth couple where the guy looked just like wesley snipes as blade and the girl was wearing this floor length ostrich feather overcoat with huge rounded shoulders...everybody's dressing to the nines on the brooklyn bound L train these days!!

[shortkingvi]

you enter into your comps process during your phd and everyone who’s already done it is like “oh it’ll absolutely explode your mind at some point and open your research framework entirely!” and you kinda roll your eyes because it’s definitely not going to be that revolutionary

and then guess what it ends up being…

[embraceyouropacities]

“Subcultures represent ‘noise’ (as opposed to sound): interference in the orderly sequence which leads from real events and phenomena to their representation in the media. We should therefore not underestimate the signifying power of the spectacular subculture not only as a metaphor for potential anarchy ‘out there’ but as an actual mechanism of semantic disorder: a kind of temporary blockage in the system of representation.”

— Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style

[cupsofsilver]

“Objects borrowed from the most sordid of contexts found a place in punks' ensembles; lavatory chains were draped in graceful arcs across chests encased in plastic bin liners. Safety pins were taken out of their domestic 'utility' context and worn as gruesome ornaments through the cheek, ear or lip...fragments of school uniform (white bri-nylon shirts, school ties) were symbolically defiled (the shirts covered in graffiti, or fake blood; the ties left undone) and juxtaposed against leather drains or shocking pink mohair tops.”

“Like Duchamp's 'ready mades' - manufactured objects which qualified as art because he chose to call them such, the most unremarkable and inappropriate items - a pin, a plastic clothes peg, a television component, a razor blade, a tampon - could be brought within the province of punk (un)fashion.”

Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style

[mobs-masses-crowds-collectives]

“To a community hemmed in on all sides by discrimination, hostility, suspicion and blank incomprehension, the sound-system came to represent, particularly for the young, a precious inner sanctum, uncontaminated by alien influences, a black heart beating back to Africa on a steady pulse of dub… Power was at home here — just beyond the finger tips. It hung on the air — invisible, electric — channeled through a battery of home-made speakers. It was present in every ‘toasted’ incantation. In an atmosphere shaking with sound, charged with smoke and nemesis, it was easy to imagine that the ‘Day of Reckoning’ was at hand; that when, at last, the ‘lightning flashed,’ the ‘weak heart’ would ‘drop and the righteous black man stand’ armored in dread, oblivious to his former suffering.”

Dick Hebdige on the sound systems of the Jamaican UK in Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979)

[wheretheeternalare]

2023 reading list :) bolded means i liked it

Companion Piece by Ali Smith Unnatural Death by Dorothy Sayers The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy Sayers Howards End by E. M. Forster The Raincoats by Jenn Pelly The Martian by Andy Weir The Minuteman Murder by Jane Langton The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco A Mercy by Toni Morrison Kindred by Octavia Butler Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige Transformer by Ezra Furman Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Rainbow Rainbow by Lydia Conklin Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Still Life by Louise Penny The Best American Short Stories 2020 ed. Curtis Sittenfeld I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer by Bob Gruen A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews Island Zombie: Iceland Writings by Roni Horn There But For The by Ali Smith The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice For All by Shon Faye The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Philip Sidney Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America by Esther Newton Bellies by Nicola Dinan A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake Girlfriends by Emily Zhou Decolonize Drag by Kareem Khubchandani Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie by Michael Bracewell Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

[inquisitiveheretic]

do you have any music book recs? (love your blog btw)

thank youuuu here's a couple favs of mine:

subculture: the meaning of style - dick hebdige

please kill me: the uncensored oral history of punk - legs mcneil & gillian mccain

england's dreaming: anarchy, sex pistols, punk rock, & beyond - jon savage

a little devil in america: notes in praise of black performance - hanif abdurraqib

girls to the front: the true story of the riot grrrl revolution - sara marcus

[knoxious-and-devoted]

"narcissism, nihilism, and gender confusion"

thank you Dick Hebdige for Subculture: The Meaning of Style. it's very interesting but also just this phrase. (p.26)

[certainwoman]

feel like reading dick hebdige today (heh of the i love dick fame but i learnt of him in some of my classes and read his texts) but dont have the time!!!!

[arwainian]

Reading this Week 2023 #14

I was not keeping strong track of what I started reading this week, but I think this about covers it?

Started and Finished:

Beastars, Vol. 8 by Paru Itagaki, translated by Tomoko Kimura

Chapters 1, 7 and an excerpt of chapter 8 of Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, narrated by Nadia May

Slightly MAD by Havendance on ao3

MAD World by Havendance on ao3

63 fatt fics for the marathon

Started and Ongoing:

Living Slow by kathkin on ao3, chapter 1

Struggles and Triumphs by P.T. Barnum

[gentlefxlk]

literally we can never have the subcultures of the past because we no longer give meanings to our style....like Hebdige told us it was about race and class/socioeconomic conditions and being close together and rebelling against the norm but now we simply capitalize on any physical expression of any type of culture......she simply cannot exist anymore and its so cringe to try and replicate it without recognizing why you cant have it

[leo9thecat]

Well I liked Stuart Hall and Dick Hebdige, now Henry Jenkins is my new thought leader.

💥🙌👏

[aislynndmerricksson]

Book Review: Gruffudd ap Llywelyn by KR Hebdige

  Gruffudd ap Llywelyn by KR Hebdige is a novel of historical fiction centring on 11th century Wales, and the struggle to unite the country into one kingdom, rather than several smaller ones. In total the tale ranges from the 1020s to 1061, following, for the most part, the life of the eponymous Gruffudd. I have a special love for Cymru-centric stories. Part of my ancestry lies there. I found…

[cupsofsilver]

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•September 6, 2022•

Trying to casually show off my bookshelf at home and my ootd because I thought I looked cool.

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I want to use my typewriter more often. I wish I wasn’t having wrist problems though.

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Excerpt from Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige

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[sommerlyrik]

“Punk has always delighted in practising transgression much more visibly, more ‘spectacularly’ than extreme metal. While the appropriateness of the concept of ‘resistance’ (Hebdige 1979) as applied to punk is a matter of debate, the concept certainly fits much better to punk than it does to extreme metal. The extreme metal scene produces transgression of a much more rigid, solipsistic kind, hiding from the limelight in the effort to sustain self-control. The same is true in comparing the extreme metal scene to the rap scene. Like extreme metal, rap has been associated with murder and has actively revelled in discourses of violence and eroticism. Yet, like punk, the rap scene embraces opposition and spectacle … in a way that extreme metal does not. Again, the extreme metal scene is much more rigidly self-controlled.”

Extreme Metal - Music and Culture on the Edge, Keith Kahn-Harris, my emphasis