Yes, for me it worked.
Maybe because I personally agonise over punk clothes / revolutionary fashion
more than is seemly. Particularly as i can never decide if ironic Che
Guevara is crass, offensive to thought, or just blank, or if I'd feel
different if high street stores sold Stalin t-shirts, or Mao...
And when it comes to buying ripped or stained clothes off the peg, well, I
don't know if it's irony-overload, late capitalist chic or witty complicity
(or just a bit silly...) Slavoj Zizek says, in Plague of Fantasies, that
capitalist advertisements which are ironic and self-aware make us complicit
in their affect because we are interpellated AND mocked to complete the
process by which this occurs...
Here London fashion week has just ended and it seems that rips are making a
come-back after being passe for a couple of years. Neo-punk all over again?
And I agree with Rebecca that the last three lines make it really work, the
PERVERT ending being funny and pointed...
Edmund
> >
> >Does this work for anyone? (Yes or No will do, but I really would
> >like to know!)
> >
> > Ripped
> > ------
> >
> > I CARE FOR NOBODY
> > said the shirt.
> > Fucked, ripped, empty.
> > $60 of emotionless 2005 neopunk.
> > 10 of them identical. That's
> > 600 blankstare dollars.
> >
> > 1976 punk said CRASS
> > or ANARCHY. And if your
> > shirt was ripped, it wasn't ripped
> > in a Chinese sweatshop.
> >
> > Who cares for nobody?
> > The corporation.
> >
> > "Anger is an energy"
> >
> > If I can't have love give me hate.
> >
> > I bought jeans. Hot red,
> > flared, textured, labelled
> > PERVERT
> >
> >Janet
> >---------------------------------------
> >Janet Jackson
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >www.arach.net.au/~huxtable/janet
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