Books on why 1993 stuck out as a particularly odd year in culture?
>>24785487I don't really think it does stick out as such an 'odd' year as you put it. What was so 'odd' about it? Your picrel: Heart Shaped Box was a decent song with an impressive music video, from what is probably Nirvana's best album. There was a handful of good albums other than In Utero; namely Siamese Dream, Bjork's Debut, and Wu Tang Clan's Enter the Wu Tang. Not many good films came out that year, Carlito's Way and True Romance are the only two that stick out. As for novels? Trainspotting was probably the book with the most impact, I guess Girl, Interruptted, and The Virgin Suicides too? But really all three books were overshadowed by their film adaptations.
>>24785487The grunge scene? Just enough and leisure time afforded to the youth coupled with cafe culture, this being just before Starbies ruined it, and the art that flourished was dismal and nihilistic, as if it knew it would fade away, get bought out and commercialized into nothing, AGAIN. Similar dynamics in the UK. They had their clubs and flash-mob unauthorized raves going around both US and UK. But again it was corporatized and flattened. "Civilization" snuffs out culture as soon as it sees it.
>>24786226>>24786315Mostly talking about how performative activism suddenly was in everyone's face that year.
>>24786315Are there any kino books about the British rave culture? I've always played with the idea of writing a novel inspired by the weird cult of Saturn that surfaced among the London rave scene in the 2000s but I wasn't around during that time and have never been much of a raver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVyeesJAuNs
>>24786445>performative activismGen X wanted to do something important. Like they had heard the hippies had done, but as it turns out their culture was an MKultra operation and the gen-x activism followed the wrong blueprint and was quickly squashed by Clinton. Protesting isn't direct action>>24786634I can only think of a few movies. 24 Hour Party People off the top of my head. I have only ever heard of this Saturn thing from /lit/. Metaphorically, I prefer Saturn over Jupiter
>>24786772>I prefer Saturn over JupiterBased and Hesiodpilled.
>>24786964Works and Days is a goyslave primer manual
>>24786772>I prefer stagnation, decadence and death over growth, abundance and life
>>24786226Wanted to add, OP here, that i was actually alive during the nineties as a middle school and high school kid. Im over 40. I just want to know why things like "Year Of The Woman" was a cultural thing (as a young conservative kid out of time I thought feminism was pretty silly even then) or the whole race riots nonsense. Basically I want to know what caused movies like PCU to be made so now that I'm two and a half decades removed from my grade school years. I know Klostermans book but 1993 struck me as a turning point. Hair metal was officially out and grunge and indie were in. Despite my views I do enjoy bands like The Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. but I always had a social disconnect with the rest of that scene despite forming a band at the tail end of the decade.
