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KINDRED CREATURES AND OTHER 80S GOTH SUBCULTURES IN ITALY [Part II] Psychogeography, rituals and places of aggregation

Gothic Specificity and Autonomous Paths The very first Italian goths are, as we saw in the first part of this article, absolute outsiders, both from the society of forced hedonism and the superficial well-being of 1980s Italy, as well as from the mode of direct confrontation and hyper-politicized behavior script of the punks. Many of […]

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KINDRED CREATURES and Other 80s Goth Subcultures in Italy [Part I]

During our rather solitary, quirky, nomadic, and unaffiliated early youth, there was a place that, throughout our psychogeographical explorations of subcultures, we frequented and perhaps loved more than any other. We loved it for various reasons. First of all, the music was dope. Death in June, Athamay, Public Image Limited, Virgin Prunes. Everything seemed frozen