Sometimes, no doubt, this will be so, and such episodes of revolt will erupt healthily at intervals. But more commonly, there is a development during which bases can be adopted and developed. ‘On the shoulders of giants’ and all that?

Hell of a waste to knock down the house when perhaps a nice extension would do the job for a while.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100214/ENT04/2140330/1362/

I thank a fascinating aspect of this topic is how new cultural hotspots emerge but aren’t always universally noticed. In cinema, for example, the extraordinary output of South Korean filmmakers over the last decade was a symptom of an astonishing cultural upturn, but one that was never fully acknowledged in the West. Subsequently, we have to wonder if it was, therefore, never spurred to reach its fullest potential.

I lived in Sheffield in the mid 70’s and I can assure you that it it was anything but dull !!!!

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Even Sheffields biggest current star Alex Turner from the Arctics has left to live in my nomination for the centre of The Culture, Brooklyn, Jarvis left for Paris eons ago. Okay Richard Hawley hangs on in Nether Edge but as much as I love him he ’s hardly makes “new stuff which is truly threatening to our settled ways of seeing thing” fot that you have to go to NYC and Croydon

It’s always difficult to spot the next, upcoming counter-cultural trend (before it gets absorbed into the mainstream)as it’s probably already happening amiong a generation far too junior to the likes of us to have any antennae into, until it explodes or gets enough coverage to make us aware of it, by which time it’s probably on the downswing of its energies and creativity anyway.

In literature, it’s going to be the Year Zero Writers Collective. You heard it here first.