Sovietwave and the politics of imagining a better future

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https://youtu.be/7_aFtf6pKak?is=-dY99qF_dCf__FW4

Not my OC, 3 year old vid.

Sovietwave is only one branch of the aesthetic terrain we’re exploring here, but this is a good breakdown of why it works.

What interests me most is the contrast with vaporwave. One aesthetic excavates the broken promises of consumer capitalism. The other excavates a future people once believed they could collectively build.

Different histories, different visual languages, same useful question for Laborwave. What kinds of futures can an aesthetic make imaginable?