Toward a working definition of paperclip-punk

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That style you see everywhere but can't fully articulate finally has a name

All eras have twin artistic movements that coexist, like the heads of a chimera. One is dominant, and a decoy. The other is recessive, and the truth. In the 60’s and 70’s, the dominant art movement was Pop Art, and the recessive movement was Fluxus. Pop Art, the decoy, was a movement defined by commodifying the already-commodified, and resulted in (at the time) record-setting auction prices for living American artists like Andy Warhol and record-setting auction prices in the posthumous decades to come. Fluxus, the truth, treated art as an open-source instruction manual whose only finished…

Toward a working definition of paperclip-punk

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