{‘The Chaos Culture’ and Youth}[23rd December 1990]

[Redbook8:147A][19901223:1645d]{‘The Chaos Culture’ and Youth}[23rd December 1990]

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[A long article included in the ms from the Guardian for 19901213 at p28 under the Review/Arts section, which is not reproduced in the ts, is headed ‘The Chaos Culture’ and sub-headed ‘Where in the name of Thatcher has youth been heading in the last 10 years? Student Mark Fisher hazards a guess’, and includes the in-line headings ‘Confronted by an environment that threatens to envelop him, the rapper constructs an indestructible ego’, and ‘By the early [Nineteen-]Eighties youth culture itself had reached its own middle age, and the Utopianism of the Sixties had soured’. No text is highlighted in the ms; but it is accompanied by a photograph captioned: ‘Chaos theory built itself into [nineteen-]eighties thinking. But even chaos comes with recurring patterns, subdividing into fractals from the simplest algebraic equation, as in this computer-generated image from what has become known as a Mandelbrot set’.]

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