fame fame fatal fame

 

Andrew Parker reminds me of this:

"In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people." - Momus

I suspect the graffiti sloganeer is playing direct off Warhol, but unawares, they are actually taking the next dialectical step from the Momus / "famous for fifteen" move.

Momus said that in 1991, which surprised me as I thought the idea dated from the start of the 2000s, those liberating-seeming days of the World Wide Web. The monoculture disintegrating, a democratization of celebrity, a burgeoning sprawl of micro-fames 

But yeah it's from as early as 1991 and is more about Momus being happy to be a cult figure - and an early stage in the monoculture's break-up, subcultural tribes proliferating...