Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Déjà vu
Stewart Home, novelist / artist / punk scholar etc, invents a fictional retro movement, déjà vu, in his 1989 novel Pure Mania
from this 1990 piece in Melody Maker by your truly
Being a Situ-influenced type of course plagiarism aka detournement is something Home was in favour of - the myth of originality is to be assaulted - and as the piece above explores, his novels were largely cut-and-pastes of earlier youthsploitation pulp fiction. On his website he's self-described as "radically inauthentic since 1962"
The concept of déjà vu reminds me little bit of this scene from the Mighty Boosh