![]() Punk gave way to post-punk regional styles proliferated, often outside the mainstream gaze and a renewed sense of oppositional political commitment suffused the air, as Labour Party socialists took over London’s municipal government while Margaret Thatcher rose to power on the national stage. The late ’70s and early ’80s blew new winds into the music press. “No sob stories, but for someone from my background, it’s difficult to see where else that interest would have come from.” “My interest in theory was almost entirely inspired by writers like Ian Penman,” the late cultural theorist and working-class autodidact Mark Fisher wrote in 2005, in a piece explaining the motivations behind starting his famed blog k-punk. If you grew up working-class in England in the ’80s and happened, somewhat improbably, to cook up an interest in the cultural theory wafting over from the continent (Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan), there really was only one obvious source: the popular music press. For others, he was the greatest writer from the magazine’s greatest era, the vanishing, too-good-to-be-true years in the early English ’80s when socialist politics, French theory, and novel reveries in pop music all seemed to linger on the same corner, and to play off each other in the tossed-off pages of the same daring magazine. Before long he’d given up on art school and begun writing for the popular music magazine that rode the postwar waves of succeeding rock styles to new heights: the New Musical Express or NME.įor some of the magazine’s historians and fans, Penman’s entrance marked the beginning of its downfall: the paper’s finger slipping from post-punk’s pulse and embracing instead an overly intellectual navel-gazing. The sound of punk left him cold, but the culture’s radicalism lured him. He found a record store run by a soul aficionado in the drowsy port town of King’s Lynn and fashioned a lifelong love for black American music, pop, and its subcultural tangents more generally. ![]() Like many working-class teens in the punk and post-punk years, he appeared bound for art school. Up until then, the great love of Penman’s life was painting. The meeting was more or less random, occasioned by the drift and cloistered openness of Royal Air Force family life the music, rough and transporting, was more or less transformational. One day in the mid-’70s on an air force base in “flattest, dullest” Norfolk, England, an African-American airmen shared some of his deep Southern blues records with a young, white English boy named Ian Penman. Official images of the Nike Air Force 1 “Valentine’s Day” in GS sizes have surfaced.Review of Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman, (Semiotext(e), 2023) In other news, the upcoming Air Jordan 1 Lost And Found would make for a solid Valentine’s Day gift as well. More details and images are sure to surface soon, likely well before the intended February 2023 release. Elsewhere, the shoe is much more simple, though it maintains the Valentine’s Day theme by way of red patent leather overlays.įor a closer look at the 2023 Air Force 1 “Valentine’s Day,” see below. Additional instances of said symbol are also applied to the tongues, the left and right of which feature “AF1” and “LOVE” text, respectively. Among these, the Swoosh is certainly the most standout, its pink-toned TPU covered with raised hearts from end to end. Though first unveiled in TD sizes, it’s likely the colorway’s PS, GS, and Adult counterparts are sure to incorporate many of the same design elements. ![]() For 2023, this includes a drove of new styles from Nike, ranging from pink-Swooshed Dunk Lows to heart-adorned Air Force 1s, the latter of which just surfaced via official images. Valentine’s Day - much like Cyber Monday and Black Friday - has quickly become a sneakerhead’s holiday, with many less interested in finding love and more keen on the occasion’s several commemorative offerings.
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