
On Bladee’s Mallwhore Freestyle
Alex Mazey uses an analysis of the Swedish rapper Bladee as a launchpad for concerns about consumerism, with references to Mark Fisher, Jean Baudrillard, George Ritzer and Jean-Francois Lyotard
Are we Living in Disneyland?
A shallow interpretation of our consumerism today maintains that we are all given an ‘illusion of choice’. Coca-Cola is Republican, and Pepsi is Democrat, with this key conceptualisation of politics as soft drinks pertaining that either choice is bad for you. However, it’s precisely that choice of substituting one product for another that, in turn, develops our identity from the culture of significance that holds us captive.
The never-ending quest…
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