Not Pamplona but
Greil Marcus:
... By 6 July 1984, when the Jacksons played the first show of their "Victory" tour, in Kansas City, Missouri... Jacksonism had produced a system of commodification so complete that whatever and whoever was admitted to it instantly became a new commodity. People were no longer consuming commodities as such things are conventionally understood (records, videos, posters, books, magazines, key rings, earrings necklaces pins buttons wigs voice-altering devices Pepsis t-shirts underwear hats scarves gloves jackets - and why were there no jeans called Bille Jeans?); they were consuming their own gestures of consumption. That is, they were consuming not a Tayloristic Michael Jackson, or any licensed facsimile, but themselves. Riding a Mobius strip of pure capitalism, that was the transubstantiation.
Lipstick Traces, cited in this fine piece.
So what just happened - the consuming of the gestures of a wraith's consumption of mourning?
Jackson:toreador::(James)Brown:bull
Labels: consumer society, greil marcus, k-punk, michael jackson, reality check
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"Riding a Mobius strip of pure capitalism, that was the transubstantiation." DAMN!
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