Aesthetics

I'm working on this page to kinda help me properly understand and appreciate consumer aesthetics and new music genres. This is a bit of a catch-all that I will eventually split to separate pages.

Utopian Scholastic

Utopian Scholastic is a term that originates from the Facebook group Utopian Scholastic Designs from a pre-9/11 World to describe a prevalent aesthetic that was prevalent in the late 80s and 90s. A lot of the educational media I enjoyed made heavy use of this aesthetic, and the sort of optimistic embrace of the Fukayaman “end of history” is pretty fundamental to who I am as a person today.

• CARI definition
• Are.na compilation by Evan Collins

Global Village Coffeehouse

While a very different style, the very notion of our interconnected modern world creating a global village sits in the same headspace as the end of history for me.

I strongly remember its digital counterpart. Some of the clip-art that came with Microsoft Office and the Curlz MT typeface, for example.

• CARI definition
• Are.na compilation by Evan Collins
• Discogs list

Vaporwave and adjacent

• Vaporwave subgenres
• Vaporwave subgenres: Proto-Vaporwave
• Vaporwave subgenres: Segahaze
• Vaporwave subgenres: Vapornoise
• The music that led to vaporwave (2008-2011)
• Vaporwave resources
• Deciphering Vaporwave
• Vaporwave Styles

Seapunk

• Seapunk music and TV
• Seapunk Ultimate Box Set

Miscellaneous

To be explore in more depth later on:

• Swing Revival
• Some Eurodance and its subgenres
• Swing Revival