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There was a great article in Dazed & Confused this month about the birth of Factory and the influence of Situationism, in reaction to the soon to be aired "24 Hour Party People" film on the Factory story, focusing on debauchery and northern chancers who got lucky. You may know all this already, but for lack of an interested audience, I spout at the gathered Barbaloids here.
The Hacienda was so name by New Orders manager & Wythenshawe's most famous Situationist, Rob Gretton, after a place in a story by Ivan Chtcheglov, from a book called "Leaving the 20th Century" translations by Christopher Gray of Situationist texts. I'm not going to type the whole article because its pages long, neither am I in an intellectual position to explain Situationist International, though I am going to do some more reading on it. However heres an excerpt, even if Dazed & Confused is a wanky style mag and thoroughly part of The Spectacle (um, I don't know if my point was anything other than to bring some obscure politics to The Music forumn and see what happens):
quote:These days few pretend their clubs are about anything more than self aggrandisement and greed in 4:4 time. Independent record labels usually mark the start of a trail leading right back to one of the five multi-national companies, and groups like Radiohead play voguish-games with art, politics and philosophy - all printed and approved by EMI. People might have you believe they are fighting "them" from the inside but I see no metaphorical boxing gloves, only idle posturing. There are few operating within the spectacle sector we call pop culture these days that can lay claim to being about anything other than commerce."
Link to "Formulary For a New Urbanism" by Ivan Chtcheglov, from which the Hacienda name was taken
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