CRITICAL AND VISUAL ANALYSIS
- CONTEXT & THEMES -
HISTORICAL
adjective
adjective: historical
of or concerning history or past events.
"historical evidence"
SOCIAL
adjective
relating to society or its organization.
"alcoholism is recognized as a major social problem"
TECHNOLOGICAL
adjective
relating to or using technology.
"the quickening pace of technological change"
CULTURAL
adjective
relating to the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a society.
"the cultural diversity of British society"
POLITICS
adjective
of or relating to the government or public affairs of a country.
"a period of political and economic stability"
- CHOSEN TERM; CULTURAL -
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"Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture." - Ken Robinson
“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” - Terence McKenna
“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.” - Chuck Palahniuk
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Front Cover of 'Sniffin' Glue' London based zine
Fab Ciraolo
Rockers - Babs Tarr for 'Retro Gals Mods and Rockers' a poster series inspired by British subcultures in the 1960s
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Tuinol Barry, Chelsea, 1981 by Derek Ridgers
Raving '89 by Gavin Watson
The 'Road Hog' bus, New Mexico, on 4th of July by Lisa Law
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