Midnight intoxication

Author: Song Yiwu
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Publish Date: 2005-08-30
Features: Urban market scene culture is yet another battle unfolding globally. It is a battle without front lines, continuous and ever-changing, where relentless consumerism brings endless tension. Beauty salons, gyms, saunas, massage rooms are the battlegrounds for the body, followed by weight loss, tattoos, eyebrow shaping, eyeliner, artificial breasts, plastic surgery, and even gender reassignment. Then comes the straight "catwalk," the "beauty pageants" of the three thousand favorites, the carousel-like idols, the endless scandals, street rock, and street dance. Urban market scene culture seeps into every corner of our lives. This "Urban Market Scene Culture Series" presents the urban fashion scene culture while also maintaining a vigilant, skeptical, and critical perspective. It reveals the cultural politics of control and domination behind these market scenes, exposing the commercial interests and various unexpected "beauty traps" hidden behind the "aestheticization of everyday life." This is the contradiction of modernity, and also the perplexity that contemporary people find difficult to transcend.