TIL that the New Wave band DEVO was formed in response to the Kent State shootings.
In 1970, co-founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis got serious about their idea of the "de-evolution" of the human race after Casale's friends Jeffrey Miller & Allison Krause were killed by OH national guards.
Reminds me of how almost all the French dadaists and surrealists were WWI veterans of the trenches seriously exploring alternatives to conventional thought and language.
You see it with the Post-Structuralists after WWII too - the idea that root of the madness lies between the world and how we process it through language.
Yeah.
“How did fascism happen?” is a very important part of that intellectual movement, but it’s the background of a whole lot of Western art of the era.
