The latest issue of the graduate communication studies journal that I helped found, Stream: Culture/Politics/Technology, has been posted. It has the proceedings of this year’s Nelson Conference, where I presented a paper called “Subculture Theory and the Fetishism of Style.”
The article contains a rough and ready introduction to the “post-subcultures” critique of the Birmingham School subcultures model as well as some thoughts to how this paradigm’s own shortcomings might be superseded by a de-fetishizing critique of style from the point of view of subcultural participants “consummative labour.”
My thanks to Danielle Deveau, Dylan Mulvin, and Laurynas Navidauskas at Stream and to conference organizers Marcos Moldes and Kelly Bergstrom.