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so i'm writing a paper on emo culture, suburbia, roland barthes, and benjamin's arcade project. any relevant books/articles i should be checking out?

― rachel khong (grammar is love), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

post a quick outline and we'll help you tighten it up!

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

You should be reading Baudrillard's seminal work, On Emo Culture, Suburbia, Roland Barthes, and Benjamin's Arcade Project, of course!

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

what's your thesis?

i guess maybe subculture: the meaning of style by dick hebdige would be good to use in parts. maybe cross some of the benjamin and barthes against adorno (check out some of the essays in his music collections and/or the brief culture industry).

i think it's a terrible and pointless book, but nothing feels good by andy greenwald kind of sort of deals with emo and suburbia i guess.

and of course, there's always the infamous jessica hopper where the girls aren't essay from punk planet.

― michael crumsho (clikatowi), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Emolacrum and Emolations is also a crucial work.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

It was all a misunderstanding.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bhny.com/staff/images/Staff290.jpg

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

It was all a misunderstanding.

-- Colin Meeder

I like it when you pop up on threads like this and affect this small, lone voice in a hurricane of dimness

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mambomovers.com/MarkBoyce.Suburbia.jpg

vs.

http://www.musicoutfitter.com/images/items/98/148098.jpg

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

ok, honestly speaking this sounds like a horrible idea. even if i weren't bored by emo (which, fine, maybe not everybody is) then neither of the theorists seems a good fit either with the subject matter or one another.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

B-B-B-ut the Arcades Fire project! emo's Great White hope

― Dare (Dare), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

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