Scott Timberg: “At a time when the term is applied to corporate pop stars like Lady Gaga and smug-plutocrat artists like Jeff Koons, subversive has come to mean close to nothing. It’s become the Marilyn Manson of critical terminology – somewhere between shock and yawn. How did we get here? … But the fact is, there are actually some people today who are genuinely subversive, and … have paid in very serious ways for their, um, subversive activities.”