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Punk, Law, Resistance … No Future: Punk against the Boredom of the Law (3 of 3)

Punk, Law, Resistance … No Future: Punk against the Boredom of the Law (3 of 3)

by Ari Hirvonen | 11 Mar 2011 | Series: Punk, Law, Resistance

Boring life What a boring life /How could anyone surviveBoring life.(The Slits, “A Boring Life”) Punk spoke not of ideals and dreams but of boredom. For punks, the 1960s hippie dream was dead and the socialist utopias were as boring as the ideologies of...
Punk, Law, Resistance … No Future: Punk against the Boredom of the Law (2 of 3)

Punk, Law, Resistance … No Future: Punk against the Boredom of the Law (2 of 3)

by Ari Hirvonen | 10 Mar 2011 | Series: Punk, Law, Resistance

My new rose, lets go Hey ho, let’s go Hey ho, let’s go […] They’re piling in the back seat They’re generating steam heat Pulsating to the back beat The Blitzkrieg Bop. (Ramones, “Blitzkrieg Bop”) Even if the lyrics of punk did not always...
Punk, Law, Resistance … No Future: Punk against the Boredom of the Law (1 of 3)

Punk, Law, Resistance … No Future: Punk against the Boredom of the Law (1 of 3)

by Ari Hirvonen | 9 Mar 2011 | Series: Punk, Law, Resistance

Pawn in their game   And that’s the way they try and run this land How they hold you down and keep you in hand You’re just a pawn in their game. (Stiff Little Fingers, “Law and Order”) Being nothing other than a pawn in their game – who...
Punk, Law, Resistance … War and Piss

Punk, Law, Resistance … War and Piss

by Ivan Gololobov | 8 Mar 2011 | Series: Punk, Law, Resistance

Punk has always been about the real – real voices, real problems, real lives, real people behind the stories. Something different from what various ‘dream factories’ are about. The real is not always comfortable. It is raw, incomprehensible, and it is scary in its...
Punk, Law, Resistance … “I have set my affair on nothing”

Punk, Law, Resistance … “I have set my affair on nothing”

by Angus McDonald | 7 Mar 2011 | Previously, Series: Punk, Law, Resistance

1. I, Punk In 1977 I was sixteen. Everything I have to say about punk is coloured by that fact, because sixteen was precisely the right age to be if punk was going to have a decisive impact on you. Because punk was not about your social class, gender or race, it was...
Punk, Law, Resistance … Introduction

Punk, Law, Resistance … Introduction

by Gilbert Leung | 6 Mar 2011 | Series: Punk, Law, Resistance

Over the coming week there will appear on Critical Legal Thinking a series of posts on the theme “Punk, Law, Resistance”. The idea for this series was inspired by some of the highly creative forms of protest that have recently taken place in the UK by, for...
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