Showing posts with label IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL WANT TO BE ANONYMOUS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL WANT TO BE ANONYMOUS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

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... 




RIP Tim Curry

A glam icon obviously for his Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show , a movie much darker and more interesting than I had first i...