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New Britain '97

The Derelict and the Pristine

New Globe

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[vanguard of London touristification (theme park capitalism); Globe 'original practices' and women-only performances betraying the tension of conservative-liberalism during the New Labour era; YBAs performing the same function as Elizabethan Theatre & Socialist Realism as state-endorsed pedagogical art; consciousness raising / citizen-formation / tourism]

New Museum

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[Groys' essay on aestheticiation of Lourve Palace -> Power Plant, aestheticisation of industry; Saatchism and the YBAs; Blair in power for Tate Mod. opening - Attlee in power for original power station opening; the golden age of social democracy vs the golden age of 'neoliberalism']

New Empire

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[Marlowe's death in 1593 ushers in the British Empire; Diana's death in 1997 coincides with its closure; conspiracy theory / paranoia; cocaine and alcohol]

New China

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[Neo-China stuff; Anna Greenspan 'wireless undertow' book; relations between reform & opening up and the Thatcher-Blair revolution; theme park capitalism]

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OTHER: [transformation of rave music; demographic change & migration; from the 'political artist' to the 'artist-politician' (constuency of the art world/art market)]