Adam Curtis, the British filmmaker whose many great films and blog posts for the BBC we’ve been ramming down our readers’ throats (in the parlance of our times) lo these past few years, has a new piece about Russian politics, punk and avant-garde that is a must-read. It’s the only work I’ve ever read that makes sense of Edward Limonov—the former eXile columnist and leader of the radical opposition—and places Limonov and his Kremlin nemesis, Vladislav Surkov, in the context of Russia’s post-Communist politics, and Russia’s wild punk rock avant-garde.
really really cool set of articles here. we got ames writing about adam curtis writing about eduard limonov, errybody's favourite nazbol hero, and vladislav surkov, a guy who i had always thought of as "the russian karl rove" but who apparently is even weirder and crazier than even that analogy. curtis traces the path of both of these knuckleheads to the anti-establishment russian punk movement of the 70s and 80s, a reflection of the degeneration of soviet ideology. the difference between the two is more like one is a phase-shift of the other, surkov's absolute nihilism developing from a later stage of national decay. curtis also links peter pomerantsev's article on surkov, which I had read before but found that I understood what he was sayin in an entirely different light after reading curtis' post.
ames: http://exiledonline.com/adam-curtis-on-edward-limonov-kremlin-politics-russian-punk-rock-the-exile/
curtis: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/01/the_years_of_stagnation_and_th.html
pomerantsev: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n20/peter-pomerantsev/putins-rasputin
curtis' article also got sum kewl tunes. plz feel free to PYF popular mechanix tracks here in mah thread. 
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i didnt see it hahahahah
Impper posted:
who cares, i never click an old thread. ideally we'd just have thread after thrad of the same exact topic
we dont?
gyrofry posted:
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Sounds like a hell of a thread.
