There comes a point in any saturated system wherein meaning no longer accumulates. It combusts. Contemporary culture functions less like a cogent symbolic order and more like a refinery under pressure, endlessly processing images, aesthetics, affect, and identity into liquid form.
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The Death of Hyper-pop: Futurism and Post-Modern Consumerism as Pastiche
The contemporary sonic soundscape of pop music toward the end of the 2010s lent itself heavily to a sort of anti-melodicism, a particular dissonance that sprang up in the likes of queer underground artist collectives.

