��� we always view our own age as being the end of civilization, ���its prophets false��� and so forth. Which is probably true. What was interesting about punk was that it actually celebrated and drew energy from this otherwise rather depressing generational habit.

Punk ��� this idea that you suddenly felt in your head as though we were living in the ruins of modernity. Jarman: It���s like the bomb has gone off in our heads already.

Michael Bracewell, The Space Between