Punk Productions: Unfinished Business

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Introduction You Are Not What You Own
• Anti-Capitalism
• Punk: A Provisional Definition
• A Desiring Punk/Punk Desire
• 1. Let's Make a Scene
• The New York Scene
• The English Scene
• California Hardcore Scene
• Washington, D.C. Hardcore Scene (First Wave Straight Edge)
• New York Hardcore Scene (Second Wave Straight Edge)
• Riot Grrrl Scene
• The Berkeley/Lookout! Pop-Punk Scene
• Conclusions
• 2. Punk Aesthetics and the Poverty of the Commodity
• Punk Versus the Commodity
• Crass Commodities
• A Profane Existence
• Aesthetic Profanity
• Economic Profanity
• CrimethInc.
• From Crass to Profane Existence to CrimethInc. and Beyond
• 3. Punk Economics and the Shame of Exchangeability
• The Punk Commodity
• The Two Poles of the Commodity
• Collecting Punk/Punk Collecting
• Viva la Vinyl
• Displaced Labor
• The Good Side of the Commodity
• 4. Market Failure: Punk Economics, Early and Late
• Early Punk Economics
• Late Punk Economics
• Dischord Records and Fugazi
• Lookout! Records
• The Failure/Success of Dischord, Fugazi, and Lookout!
• 5. Screening Punk
• Punk Cinema?
• The Punk Marquee: What's Showing?
• At the Bijoux: Rude Boy
• In the Mall Cineplex: Fight Club
• Dénouement
• Epilogue: Beyond Punk
• Punk's Not Dead
• Notes
• References
• Index