M1-ACP Personal project:"The Middle" by Pollux

What is subculture?

luxianglin0 — 2023-10-17 21:13:43 UTC

A subculture is a group of people within a cultural society that differentiates itself from the conservative and standard values to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles. Subcultures develop their own norms and values regarding cultural, political, and sexual matters. Subcultures are part of society while keeping their specific characteristics intact. Examples of subcultures include BDSM, hippies, hipsters (which include 1940s original parent subculture and nipster), goths, steampunks, bikers, punks, skinheads, gopnik, hip-hoppers, metalheads, cosplayers, otaku, furries, and more. The concept of subcultures was developed in sociology and cultural studies.^[1] Subcultures differ from countercultures.

What is counter culture?

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A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.^[1]^[2] A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a specific population during a well-defined era. When oppositional forces reach critical mass, countercultures can trigger dramatic cultural changes. Prominent examples of countercultures in the Western world include the Levellers (1645–1650),^[3] Bohemianism (1850–1910), the more fragmentary counterculture of the Beat Generation (1944–1964), and the globalized counterculture of the 1960s (1965–1973).^[4]

What’s the difference between them?

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Subcultures include people who may accept much of the dominant culture but are set apart from it by one or more culturally significant characteristics. Some examples of subcultures are LGBT, bodybuilders, nudists, hip hop, grunge. On the other hand, countercultures are groups of people who differ in certain ways from the dominant culture and whose norms and values may be incompatible with it. Some examples are: Englightenment, Suffragettes, Romanticism.

Subculture:the meaning of style

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Two forms of incorporation:the commodity form and the ideological form

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On the heights of despair

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Storyline of the illustration set

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Part

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Hebdige argues that all subcultures experience the same trajectory. In this model, subcultures initially form through a common resistance. The dominant society often sees these groups as radical, leading to fear, skepticism, and anxiety in their response. In some ways, this gives the subculture's resistance more power but only momentarily, because eventually entrepreneurs find a way to commodify the style and music of the subculture. Before long, elements of the subculture are available to the mainstream, i.e. Edwardian jackets of the Teddy boys. In this way, what was once subversive, rebellious, and radical, is now contained. For this reason, it is often the case that the moment when dominant society begins to recognize a subculture is the moment that the resistant power of the subculture begins to die.
赫布迪奇认为，所有亚文化都经历着相同的轨迹。在这个模型中，亚文化最初是通过共同的抵抗形成的。主流社会常常将这些群体视为激进分子，导致他们的反应产生恐惧、怀疑和焦虑。在某些方面，这给了亚文化的抵抗更大的力量，但只是暂时的，因为最终企业家找到了一种将亚文化的风格和音乐商品化的方法。不久之后，亚文化的元素就进入了主流，即爱德华时代的泰迪男孩夹克。这样一来，曾经的颠覆性、反叛性、激进性现在就被遏制了。因此，往往当主流社会开始承认亚文化的时候，亚文化的反抗力量就开始消亡。

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Man should no longer act as—or become—a rational animal. He should be a lunatic, willing to risk everything for his dangerous fantasy, capable of triumphing, willing to die for what the world has and for what it doesn't have. Everyone's ideal should be to stop being a human being. This can only be achieved through absolute willfulness.
人应该不再充当—或成为—理性的动物。他应该成为一个疯子，为了他危险的幻想而甘愿冒一切风险，能够高歌猛进，愿意为世界已有的一切而死，也愿意为世界所没有的一切而死。每个人的理想都应该是不再做人。这只能通过绝对的任性妄为来实现。

The relationship between subculture, counter-culture and dominant culture.

luxianglin0 — 2023-11-06 19:46:01 UTC

I’m interested in subculture and love to wear subculture style clothes,but I found that on Chinese social sharing apps, the number of posts on #basic/primary subculture account for a large proportion,but on the apps such as instagram and TikTok,there are no such similar tags.

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Japanese style clothes

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Lolita

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Otaku/virtual characters

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Manga and game

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Some subculture style shops

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On Chinese social sharing apps, the number of posts on #basic/primary subculture style outfits is one-third of the number of #subculture outfit tag,and posts on #subculture outfits also include basic posts.

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Muggleton argues that the pick and mix approach to style evident among the respondents in his study is due to the increasing proliferation of youth styles, and the prominence of the retro market, combined with the new postmodern sensibilities of style in which individualism has surpassed an emphasis on collectivity as a means by which social actors seek out desirable visual images, and construct sociocultural identities, for themselves. The development of post-subcultural theory has subsequently seen a range of conceptual frameworks employed, most notably ‘neo-tribe’, ‘lifestyle’ and ‘scene’.
马格尔顿认为，他的研究中受访者对风格的挑选和混合方法明显是由于青年风格的日益扩散、复古市场的突出，以及新的后现代情感的结合。在这种风格中，个人主义已经超越了对集体的强调，作为社会行动者为自己寻找理想的视觉形象并构建社会文化身份的手段。后亚文化理论的发展随后出现了一系列概念框架的使用，其中最著名的是“新部落”、“生活方式”和“场景”。

luxianglin0 — 2023-11-06 22:04:34 UTC

I learnt of the similarities between post-subculture and the “middle” people and conducted a literature survey of this emerging community. But the research of post-subculture is very little, and this theory has been criticized. Maybe because this kind of people are new and mysteries to all of us.

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I argue that the reading of punk subculture as a style that can be seen to symbolise an end of history through its reliance on signs and signifiers reconfigured from previous youth subcultures that have been emptied of their meaning, and that this emptiness was being used by punks often in a highly individualised manner, in a strategy of visual shock tactics, is the first development of a reflection on youth subculture of having a postmodern sensibility.
我认为，将朋克亚文化解读为一种风格，可以被视为象征着历史的终结，因为它依赖于从以前的青年亚文化中重新配置的符号和能指，而这些符号和能指已经被空虚了，而这种空虚正被朋克所利用通常以高度个性化的方式，以视觉冲击策略的策略，是对具有后现代感性的青年亚文化反思的首次发展。

The subculture tags on China app Douyin(TikTok)

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TikTok

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Instagram

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My thoughts

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I took this picture at Canon Hillpark,the two trees look funny,one is full of leaves, the other tree is bare.
Then I found that they are just like the two group of people-the public and the people who extremely admire subcultures.

Storyboard

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Colorful fireworks exploded from the elf's heart. Although it was painful, it was very beautiful.

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After the elf escaped again, he lay alone on the ground with colorful flames igniting on his body.

luxianglin0 — 2023-11-28 19:18:32 UTC

Positive:/Great idea,continue to research
Negative:/The story is too fantasy and abstract
Advice:
/Watch exhibitions about subculture such as Gosh
/Go to an subculture activity such as comic con
/Change a easier and more realistic way to tell this story

Nov 10. V&A exhibition about Japanese culture

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Manga cartoon

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Clothes

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Manga characters and objects

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Manga Sailor Moon

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Dec 2. MCM Comic Con

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Collage：Categories of Subculture

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I put on a wig, dressed up and went to Comic Con as a “middle” person. I didn’t cosplay any of the characters, but I still got a lot of people express their love and compliments on my look while taking photos. This gave me a lot of confidence.

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Nov 22

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Nov 8 Formative Assessment

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This exhibition displays Japanese animation according to three aspects: mountains, sea, and sky. It is very helpful for children to understand comics. It is easy to understand and has many very cute images. I recorded many excellent creative inspirations.

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Story

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This is a simple and realistic story. A girl who loves Lolita skirts received an invitation from a friend to play. When she was about to put on a beautiful skirt, she remembered her mother's words that she didn't want her to buy any more skirts. She put on an ordinary skirt in the end, but was dragged into a coffee shop by her friend. In a coffee shop with Lolita lovers, she was finally convinced by a person who liked Lolita. As long as you have passion and love in your heart and you are happy, it will be fine.