Mark Fisher was right, I thought for the 400th time this August. “The feeling of belatedness, of living after the gold rush, is as omnipresent as it is disavowed,” the theorist wrote in 2013, regarding the futureless inertia of 21st century culture, the sense that life continues though time has somehow stopped. It was a tweet that set me off—a trio of flash photos from a celebrity’s birthday party. The people in the photographs are young, but not that young; they are dancing in the booths of a packed Silver Lake nightclub; they look like they’re having fun. Above the photos was a caption: “charli had cobrasnake at her birthday party indie sleaze is back in full force omg.” These words may mean something to you or they may not. Either way, one thing’s for sure: the moment people in your phone start saying something’s back, that’s when you know it’s over.
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