A Critique of McKenzie Wark
"While I was working on my book Raving, about the Brooklyn queer rave scene, I heard an interview with another writer, about another scene, describe parts of the city as" post-cultural." That shocked me, at first, then I came to think that it might be right. What would it mean to think of culture as something that is disappearing? Not that there is culture and it's bad, but that there is no culture, good or bad. That in some parts of the urban and media environments there's nothing left but a kind of post cultural decoration. If one can provisionally admit the possibility of the post cultural, one might then imagine a post cultural studies, and a post cultural practice." - McKenzie Wark
The desire to treat and accept everything with the prefix "post-" is an anti-intellectual attention-deficit disorder, a refusal in this case to think dialectically about how culture endures despite the culture industry.
The profoundly useless label, "post-contemporary," thankfully died it would seem. "Post-culture" should be shed as violently as possible.
Post-Punk was the last time the prefix worked with regards to culture. All further attempts should result in jail time.
Vice Magazine was bankrupted by Christ. Vice Magazine Theory remains.