Showing posts with label TAKING RETRO TO ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION. Show all posts
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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