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...
Haha very good! Where is that?
ReplyDeleteI don't know - I just saw the image on social media or the internet, thought "having that"
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