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The Video Japan Never Made—and Couldn’t Have

by Chris J Wegner | Dec 23, 2025 | Culture in Flux

This video feels less like a remix and more like a return. A loop quietly closing. When Nightporter first appeared, it belonged to a different production universe entirely. ELASTE was made with scissors, glue, Letraset, typewriters, darkrooms, nerves. No computers. No...
“Fantastic Voyage” serves as Bowie’s Poignant Testament. an Impassioned Proclamation of Humanism.

“Fantastic Voyage” serves as Bowie’s Poignant Testament. an Impassioned Proclamation of Humanism.

by Chris J Wegner | Dec 9, 2025 | Culture in Flux

It’s a very modern worldBut nobody’s perfectIt’s a moving worldBut that’s no reasonTo shoot some of those missilesThink of us as fatherless scumIt won’t be forgotten’Cause we’ll never say anything nice againWill we?And the...

Post, Punk, Pop and Postmodernism: The Trendsetting 80s

by Chris J Wegner | Oct 1, 2025 | Culture in Flux

Iggy Pop: An Age-Defying Force of Nature, Still Rocking the Stage

Iggy Pop: An Age-Defying Force of Nature, Still Rocking the Stage

by Chris J Wegner | Jul 3, 2025 | Culture in Flux

Iggy Pop has been a constant presence since his early days. I vividly remember attending his live performances in the 1980s, and each time, my excitement was through the roof. His collaborations with David Bowie, notably the groundbreaking albums “The...
Pepsi, Pop, and Paradox: The ’80s Bowie-Turner Collaboration

Pepsi, Pop, and Paradox: The ’80s Bowie-Turner Collaboration

by Chris J Wegner | May 25, 2025 | Culture in Flux, Interference, Zeitgeist

Back to the ’80s: a haze of neon lights, big hair, shoulder pads, and a seemingly endless supply of enthusiasm for all things audacious. This era gave us the goofy Pepsi commercial featuring David Bowie and Tina Turner. Decades later, the ad feels like a time...
Sleaford Mods: ‘The UK is like a crazy golf course’

Sleaford Mods: ‘The UK is like a crazy golf course’

by Chris J Wegner | Mar 8, 2025 | Culture in Flux

“A lot of these politicians, they’re not evil. They’re just very detached,” says Jason Williamson, singer and lyricist of the Sleaford Mods. “I’d like to say it’s not just bounteous privilege, but it is. People like Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, they’re incredibly...
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