Cultura giovanile e condizione di flusso: a partire dal punk

According to the sociologist Dick Hebdige, young people of the punk movement lived in a condition of flux. It represents an existential condition that they themselves deeply desired, and which anticipated a similar situation of instability and dynamism that is increasingly spreading within contemporary hypermodern societies. Thus, the punk movement has to some extent anticipated one of the most important processes of social change that have occurred in recent decades. This article attempts to trace the main characteristics of punk, as well as to reconstruct synthetically the nature of this social movement.