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                                             April 06, 2022

                                             "Metropolis on the Styx" (2007)
                                             by David L. Pike

                                                         DEEPSIX

    "As the brief but
    violent surge of punk      Punk was violent?
    music made clear, the      Punk's era was brief?    Hang on-- it wasn't
    modern devil remains                                punk that was violent
    only in those places         Punk was the           or brief, it was the
    where the cracks in the      modern devil?          "surge"
    representation of space
    from which he is             Punk was living        But then, surges have
    excluded-- the liberal,      in the cracks          to be brief, or else
    secular, democratic          of capitalism?         they'd be "sea changes".
    ideology of global                                  Though maybe the
    capitalism-- show            Unlike, say an         briefness refers to how
    through."                    Alice Cooper show?     long the level stayed
                                 Or maybe Black         up after the surge.
                                 Sabbath?               Could we get a range
                                                        of dates for the punk
         But I am glad that this                        phenomena?
         historical example has
         made something clear.                          And maybe some way
                                                        to measure it's height?
            Hang on-- it's not
            capitalist cracks, it's                          (The devil's
            cracks in the                                    dipstick.)
            representational space.
            Argh, no it's the
            "representation of space".    CBGBs could
                                          exist only
              So some of my               until they
              cracks may be               remembered to
              off-base.                   add "Bowery St"
                                          to the map.
              Or drowned in the
              sea of clarity.








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