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BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

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Songs About People # 1,175 Brad Dourif - Rather scary track for great American character actor who started out as Billy Bibbit.
3 hours ago
thebluemoment.com

Those hard luck stories - Two sides to every story, right? In one of the essays accompanying the wonderful new eight-CD reissue of the collected works of Richard and Linda Thompson,...
15 hours ago
Wyrd Britain

Time, A Falconer: A Study of Sarban - Mark Valentine Tartarus Press *In this new biographical study Mark Valentine enables us to understand more of John William Wall (1910-1989), the diffident...
21 hours ago
Lost Turntable

Yeah it’s time for more Madonna - Madonna Dress You Up (The 12″ Formal Mix) Dress You Up (The Casual Instrumental Mix) Papa Don’t Preach [Extended Version] Look, writing about Madonna is ea...
23 hours ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

when workshops attack - TFW you make a bunch of off-the-cuff suggestions around lunchtime on Monday about how you might go about doing some institutional futures stuff in a worksh...
1 day ago
A Year In The Country

The Layering – Released - Released today 22nd September 2020. CDs available via our Artifacts Shop and at Bandcamp. Downloads available at Bandcamp. Features music and accompanying ...
1 day ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

John Henry Days lecture notes (2014) - From Greil’s course in the Writing Program at the New School (Fall 2014), “The Old Weird America: Music as Democratic Speech—From the Commonplace Song to B...
1 day ago
Trevor Barre

Eddie Prevost Part Two - Eddie goes on to describe a performance by one Alexander Strickland, who performed as Syncopating Sandy, at the New Cross Empire sometime in the late 50s...
1 day ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Golden Queen’s Commando (Chu Yen-Ping, 1982) - Although I can’t find a way to shoehorn it into any of my existing blog categories, today I’m going to go off-piste to tell you all about ‘Golden Queen’s ...
1 day ago
Real Life

Bot or Not - CAPTCHAs once seemed to differentiate between real and fake users. But as more communication has become partly automated and algorithmic augmented, that di...
1 day ago
xenogothic

XG on Acid Horizon (Part 2) - Back in July, I had a really excellent time chatting with Craig, Matt and Will of the Acid Horizon podcast about my book Egress. Just a few months later an...
2 days ago
It's Full of Stars

Poly-Buchla - I managed to get a Buchla 114 touch plate module from La67. To be honest I didn't really know what exactly this module would do functionally, as there ...
3 days ago
Cut and Run

RecOMP 2020-09-16 - Ben W. brings us a beautiful palimpsest of recent compositions and a looks forward to this week’s Hadden Park sonic adventures.
4 days ago
Nina Power

Philosophy of Risk Course, Online, Mary Ward 28th September-14th December, Mondays 1-3pm - I’m teaching a new Adult Ed course. Register here. The course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of risk. It will examine the topi...
5 days ago
We Are the Mutants

The Jewel in the Skull: ‘James Cawthorne: The Man and His Art’ - By *Richard McKenna* Stuff has to happen when it has to happen, I suppose. Back in the summer of 2018, I'd pre-ordered a copy of *James Cawthorn: The Man a...
5 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

Lo Five - The Art Of Living & Her Majesty's Coroner for Wirral - Esoteric Healing: friend or foe? - The Art of Living by Lo Five Another terrific album from *Lo Five*. It's influenced by family tragedy, the ever present threat of COVID in 2020, lockdown b...
6 days ago
A Shiver in the Archives

Man vs. Nature, as of 1932 - Every time one re-reads a worthy book, one finds new resonances within it. I believe this is my fifth time with this volume, and its ecological view woul...
1 week ago
__underscore

It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet? (Dispatches on Scottish Geotrauma) - *Messy, speculative dispatches from an alien encounter…* On a visit up to Scotland two weeks ago to see Nick, we, utterly accidentally, came across alien...
1 week ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

Various ‎– Omicron-Omega (Qbico ‎– Qbico Omicron to Qbico Omega) (10 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Partially Unofficial Box Set, Limited Edition) (FLAC) - *Mr. Qbico se tiró 10 años en la fabricación de este joya, emitida en una tirada numerada a mano de solo 50 copias, dedicada al difunto Conrad Schnitzle...
1 week ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

Pre-Electronic & Post-Electronic Music in Electronic Sound #68, and Prehistoric Microtonal Scales in The Silo - This month’s Electronic Sound magazine contains my feature titled ‘Parallel Worlds’ examining worlds beyond electronic sound, into pre-electronic and post-...
1 week ago
The Astral Plane

The Soul of the Creative: Free Labor and the Psychopolitics of Control - Fernand Léger, The Builders We are living in an era of smoothness. Smooth movies, smooth design and smooth digital infrastructure form an unblemished carap...
1 week ago
The Pink Temple

- Pastiche dawn swells to crescendo of startled bird cry in the quick embers of ulterior reward. Has it come to this? The breathless cadence twining anti-c...
2 weeks ago
The Pirate Archive

Frontline Radio – Wolverhampton - Frontline Radio (FLR) were first heard in the early 1990s. They broadcast from Wolverhampton, initially on 101 FM. They played mostly reaggae, but also f...
2 weeks ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

Manuel DeLanda: ISM ISMGraffiti and détournements by Manuel... - *Manuel DeLanda: ISM ISM* Graffiti and détournements by Manuel DeLanda on the streets of 1970s New York City, documented by the artist ...
2 weeks ago
Jason Phereus,

Begging Letters - My esteemed publisher Repeater informs me that we could do with some more reviews and ratings for Eminent Domain on Amazon as my algorithm there is poor,...
2 weeks ago
(SF) 365

Rogue One into Star Wars - Watching *Rogue One* and *Star Wars* back-to-back, as the chronology dictates, has been an interesting experience. *Rogue One* is almost melancholy. It h...
3 weeks ago
Portals of London

Weird riot radio – The Eldritch Broadcast - Nine years ago, 29 year old Mark Duggan was shot dead by Police, sparking riots in Tottenham which spread acrossContinue Reading
3 weeks ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Neon Loneliness: Inside Eschaton & Parallel’s ‘PM:AM’ LP - “Reflective, haunted by something and praying for absolution, then realizing that you had the power to change it all along” In the last decade, the rapid a...
3 weeks ago
/ \

Gotta Go Fast, and Other Adventures in Incoherence - How much of your time is spent defending the honour of the dead? This is the question that often arises when some brouhaha about that corpse accelerationis...
3 weeks ago
Ace Linguist

Dialect Dissection: The Diverse Dialects of Xenoblade Chronicles - Most video games with voice acting go in one of two directions: using General American accents as a default, and using Received Pronunciation for fantas...
4 weeks ago
Aloysius

Burrowing in for the Long Winter IV (Can the Ripple Be More Important Than the Splash?) - In the last installment of this series of posts, I’ll address two lingering questions. First, what does everything discussed in parts 1-3 have to do with...
4 weeks ago
streams of expression

‘Heroic Purgatory’ (1970, dir. Yoshishige Yoshida) - Yoshishige Yoshida’s 1969-1973 trilogy of radicalism--recently packaged for the English language market as a DVD boxset entitled ‘Love and Anarchism’,...
4 weeks ago
Suspended Reason

Kaitlin Phillips as PopLit - It was spring, around 11am and cold; we had teas with condensed milk in a small Malaysian place in the Lower East Side and I held up an AbEx painter book t...
4 weeks ago
Airport Through The Trees

Infinite Circle - The problems we face today are the successful realization of the solutions offered to solve them.
4 weeks ago
lunarlodge

Protected: In response to Dr. Ch@rmaine Nel$on - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
5 weeks ago
BLDGBLOG

The Gosling Effect - [Image: Curtains mistaken for Ryan Gosling; original image supplied by Jomppe Vaarakallio, courtesy PetaPixel; click through to PetaPixel to see the Goslin...
5 weeks ago
64 Quartets

5. The Benny Goodman Quartet - DISCOGRAPHY (+) SOURCES (-) PLAYLIST (+) Stomping at the Paramount, New York, 1937 In the 19 February 1938...
5 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • August 12, 2020 -
1 month ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Mod RIP: Nik Cohn – Ready Steady Gone. - [image: Observer Mod 1.jpg] Outside of Pete Townshend and the Who, Nik Cohn’s favourite topic in the 1960s was the Mod phenomenon, so it was a buzz to fi...
1 month ago
Modernism Unbound

An Introduction to Modernism (Unbound) - ‘Modernism’ is a broad term with many different connotations. In this article, Jon Lindblom provides a basic introduction to it from the perspectives of cu...
1 month ago
Found Objects

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1 month ago
East of Borneo

Millard Sheets, Albert Stewart: Monument to Freemason, Albert Pike, Scottish Rite Temple, 1961 - On July 23 The New York Times reported that the Marciano Art Foundation has settled a lawsuit charging that the foundation had broken the law by laying off...
1 month ago
it's her factory

“Individual Responsibility” and the visual rhetoric of COVID-19 - As Jennifer Reich writes in her study of anti-vax moms in Colorado, “public health [is] in direct contradiction to neoliberalism.” Neoliberalism is all abo...
1 month ago
on the ones

The 11 Cats (11ぴきのねこ) and Other Tales (1976, 1980) - At long last, a certain dream of mine for almost four years now has come true—namely, for Group TAC’s long-forgotten classic film The 11 Cats, which was or...
2 months ago
Olympic Mess

Revealing the Map - The gradual uncovering of the map in Red Dead Redemption 2. The thought of it all just sat there, unmarked but accessible… It’s a relatively new mechanic, ...
2 months ago
Pop Theory

Understanding Popular Responses to COVID-19 - It’s not exactly good news to find out that you have been successful for a funding bid to do research on Covid-19 – it generates a rather ambivalent respon...
2 months ago
INTO THE SWAMP

COSIMA - Interview, March 2020. - *Back in March, I interviewed Cosima for a fashion website’s summer campaign. Then, y’know, a pandemic kicked off. Then, y’know, I got fired from said fa...
2 months ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Nuts - Nuts! Not long ago, the musician Tim Burgess hosted, for one of his COVID-era Listening Parties on Twitter, a song-by-song collective listen to Bowie’s Ear...
2 months ago
WOEBOT

Eastern Philosophy and the Cosmic Sound in the Counterculture - *“I don’t reside in the hearts of yogis but with those who sing their devotion to me.” Lord Krishna in the words of Pandit Pran Nath.* Music critics look a...
2 months ago
davidtoop

on&on&on&on: Daniel Blumberg - “And now he was playing, alas, the piano,” the first sentence of Robert Walser’s short prose text written in 1925, “making it sound like a deep and intimat...
2 months ago
History is made at night

No dancing - the 1918/19 influenza epidemic - The flu epidemic of 1918-19 killed millions of people around the world, including over 200,000 in the UK. As with the Covid-19 pandemic there were social d...
2 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic: the Rhinebeck small business survey - I was recently asked to analyze the results of an online questionnaire that was distributed to small businesses in Rhinebeck, New York, over the second hal...
3 months ago
Datacide

Digital Version of Datacide 18 is available now! - We have now produced a digital version of the current issue datacide eighteen. Its content is identical to the print edition, but some illustrations are i...
3 months ago
Sounding Out!

“It’s Time to End the Publishing Gatekeeping!”: SO! stands with RaceB4Race - Sounding Out! stands with the RaceB4Race Executive Board and their recent public statement published via the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance St...
3 months ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I wrote about Mark Fisher and Matt Colquhoun’s monograph on him for Tribune.
3 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Peter Whitehead’s The Fall (1969): 50th Anniversary Restoration Screening - Poster at the ICA screening. *07/11/2019. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. I was asked to introduce a newly restored version of Peter Whitehead’s ...
3 months ago
music, etc

Ranking Jandek albums - Yesterday I posted a Jandek* playlist*; here are my favorite albums. Only strict favorites allowed–only those I would recommend to a skeptic–or else it ...
3 months ago
森と記録の音楽

Theory Therapy 08: Tomoyuki Fujii - シドニーのオンラインジャーナル「Low End Theorists」のために作ったミックスが公開になりました。Low End Theoristsは、スコットランド出身のGary Hunterとシドニー出身のDaniel Patrinにより今年新たに立ち上げられたプロジェクトで、主にオーストラリアのインディ...
3 months ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Deleuze and Guattari Quarantine Collective and Acid Horizon - It’s been a busy few weeks for me. Aside from having to finish writing the first chapter of my PhD thesis, submit, take feedback, correct, resubmit, get mo...
4 months ago
The Pinocchio Theory

John Scalzi’s Interdependency trilogy - I just finished reading The Last Emperox, the just-published final volume of John Scalzi’s Interdependency trilogy. It’s a fun, breezy read, though not dee...
5 months ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

Loam - [image: https://img.artrabbit.com/events/in-the-footsteps-of-the-sacrifice-in-memory-of-andrey-tarkovsky/images/IfdRS5OurWVx/1500x998/2.jpg] [*Incantation ...
5 months ago
The New Vulgate

Issue #157 (April 20, 2020) - *Carillon along the DuPage River, Naperville, Ill.* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ...
5 months ago
The Work Trials

THINKPIECE #2: A Room Without A Roof? The Ten Most-Played Songs of the Past Decade - On Bank Holiday Monday which was strangely like every other day off of recent times, my favourite disc jockey Scott Mills popped up on Radio 2 to reveal ...
5 months ago
Tower of Sleep

CVS Learnnet Login Guide - As login over the smartphone makes your work easier and sturdy on the similar time. 5. Hit the login button to get effectively logged in. 5. In case you’...
5 months ago
The Hum Blog

A Power Stronger Than Itself: Sounds For Communal Isolation. Vol. Three - Bradford Bailey – Untitled Collage, 2007. I’m writing from a future, just ahead of most. It’s a present, already the past. More than a month into a life ...
5 months ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
5 months ago
joy of speed

Satellite Anthem Icarus -
6 months ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Death Panels- Temerity - Temerity by Death Panels
6 months ago
Disposable Everything

The reification of Welsh rugby - (Also available to read on Medium) A shiver down the collective spine of the Welsh nation: international rugby (or, one presumes, that which is presented i...
6 months ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

The clamour of nationalism: Race and nation in twenty-first-century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan - The successful upsurge of nationalism across Europe is unnerving, to say the least. The Clamour of Nationalism’s achievement is not in its desire to explai...
7 months ago
The Priapean Logs

Daniel Was Traveling Tonight On A Plane - Danny L. Please can you pick a pre-92 rap album for us to do our listening club to tomorrow night. Thank you very much.
7 months ago
blog to the oldskool

2019 Round Up - HAPPY NEW YEAR to all you lovely people who tune in and support us! First of all a special shout out to Steffi for requesting I do this multiple times. ...
8 months ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
9 months ago
History's Dumpster

The Last 78 RPM Records - "Gwendolyne" Julio Iglesias (1970, Colombia) Image: Discogs*What was the last 78 RPM record?* I've been asked this question now and then and to be perfect...
9 months ago
Prole Sector

Silver Waves – Tunnelling (Portals Editions) - Abstract, delicate, yet quite wrenching and abyssal at the same time. This one goes deep. Caving…
9 months ago
Rockets & Rayguns

407 Proxy Authentication Required - hangingfire: SO THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF THINGS TO UNPACK ABOUT *MR. ROBOT* 4.07 but I wanted to talk about the paintings (prints) in Krista’s apartment. ...
10 months ago
Amodern

Construction of Selena Leo Vegas Casino Download World Resort & Casino Commences in Primorye Gambling Zone - Construction of Selena World Resort & Casino Commences in Primorye Gambling Zone Russian casino developer Diamond Fortune Holdings Ltd. announced that co...
10 months ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
1 year ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
1 year ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

The Larks Ascending - *The Larks Ascending* is a complete guide to comedy, humour and downright oddness on BBC Radio 3, from Kenneth Williams’ archival documentaries about str...
1 year ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

‘Freedom of movement is essential for musicians’ – opera singer told to change pro-EU dress! - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/26/opera-singer-asked-to-change-pro-eu-dress-for-london-concert “It’s a difficult time for the musical communi...
1 year ago
Sonic Truth

Stop playing the reality management game - A pleasure to have been able to add my voice to the appraisals of the K-Punk collected works, in the FT, and here belatedly is the link. Non-subscribers sh...
1 year ago
Rave Archive UK »

Helter Skelter ‘Energy 97’ - Helter Skelter ‘Energy 97’ – Western aerodrome, Northampton – 9.8.97 Kenny Ken – Helter Skelter ‘Energy 97 Download/Play Mickey Finn – Helter Skelter ‘Ener...
1 year ago
Mark Richardson

- Hello—my name is Mark Richardson and I’m a writer and editor. You may remember me from when I was the Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor of the online mu...
1 year ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Songs Morrissey should cover#14 - Advertisements
1 year ago
ecstatic apophenia

De Origine Draconum III: Wyrmling - *“With a terrible singleness of concentration he achieved the union of his new skin with his body, preventing rejection. No corner of his body was left to...
1 year ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
1 year ago
Boring Old Books

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
1 year ago
leaving earth

RAVE ALBUMS 1991-1992 - Ever since I almost entirely missed it (I only really got into techno and rave in 1992-1993), I've been fascinated by the short period of time – at most 19...
2 years ago
THE SIXTH EAR.

https://raglani.bandcamp.com/album/extinctions Raglani... - https://raglani.bandcamp.com/album/extinctions Raglani Extinctions released today on Ketu and Bandcamp.
2 years ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

Agen Tasly Calsium Plus di Jakarta - *TASLY CALSIUM PLUS**Agar tulang anda lebih sehat* Tasly Calcium Plus isi 100 kapsul Kalsium berperan vital dalam kehidupan kita dan merupakan elemen ese...
2 years ago
KID SHIRT - Blog

//ENDS HERE - Something new, I think. No idea what. Or when.Time to rest those old bones. Be well, be safe, all.//ENDS HERE [...]
2 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
2 years ago
IX Tab

Disco Medusae - The new IX Tab album Disco Medusae is available for pre-order now at the bandcamp page for a measly virtue payment of £4.23
2 years ago
Soundboy

I’ve moved this blog to ianhogarth.com - Shout out to my Tumblr/RSS reader peoples. New blog is here: https://www.ianhogarth.com/blog/ New post on the geopolitics of AI just up: https://www.ian...
2 years ago
Southern Discomfort

h-h-h-Hanif’s half hour - Now # It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is going to materialise. Once the interview request, itself fielded, to be … Continue reading →
2 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
2 years ago
Sounds of the Dawn

Sounds of the Dawn Guest Host Northern Ashram NTS Radio December 9th 2017 - Tracklist East – Lélegzet Barry Cleveland – Abrasax Renato Anselmi – Mercato Fenicio Ron Boots – Breath The Living Air Francis Moneyman – Getting Ready Jea...
2 years ago
The Empty Page

Critical Perspectives on Critical Perspectives on Waluigi - The Empty Page Radical Publishing House is not so much an organisation or a company but an idea. Whilst having only published three analyses to date, the l...
2 years ago
Mutant Technology

Dj Deadtrax “Gabber house” – an exploration of European hardcore rave - “The Mover is dark because it’s set in the phuture of mankind. I can’t possibly justify seeing a happy end to this stupid human drama. Darkness is not myst...
2 years ago
The Night Mail

no.8// Twin Peaks the Musical! - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks *Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* At the Roadhouse, every night is...
2 years ago
highfunctioninghuman | The blog of Robin Carmody. Liberal humanist, reformed ex-Stalinist and former anti-anti-anti-Semite, melancholy Europhile and romantic-ruralist socialist. Londoner by birth, Kentish Man by upbringing, Portlander by adoption. "More like Roy Harper than Fairport Convention" – Simon Reynolds, 2003. May be the horsiest Leftie in the Anglosphere, but there are many horsier ones beyond.

How to hate the working classes - In 2001, the year Luke Haines recorded the song after which this post is titled and to which I listened obsessively (“a party of our own”, indeed), I did s...
2 years ago
Drumtrip

Win tickets to LTJ Bukem + Fabio @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, April 2018 - Hi everyone, it’s been a while. I come with gifts (well for two of you at least). The guys at Soundcrash are putting on an event not to be missed: The le...
2 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

My New Book – High Buildings, Low Morals - “I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” ― Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics It’s been two years si...
2 years ago
The Fantastic Hope

A BRIEF GUIDE TO BASIL BUNTING'S BRIGGFLATTS FOR FIRST-TIME READERS - *Briggflatts* by Basil Bunting is one of the great poems of the twentieth century, though it has not always occupied a central place in discussions of...
2 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Slides for talk at No! Festival, HKW Berlin - This past weekend I gave a talk about how, why and whether cultural work can refuse the various alienations of modern society / economics, as part of a pa...
2 years ago
Our God is Speed

Cargo Culting - Christopher D'Archangelo, *Post No Art* (c. 1975) as seen at documenta 14, Kassel, Germany. via Thierry Geoffrey Various graffiti, Athens, Gree...
2 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Leigh on Sea Folk Festival 2017 - Teleplasmiste will be performing at this year’s Leigh Folk Festival, and also participating in Justin Hopper’s audio-visual feast of music and folklore, I ...
3 years ago
A Window on the World

Have-a-go zeroes, Brexit dreamers and a tribune emerges: the 2017 General Election - ‘He would probably have to move to Downing Street. He says: “I am very happy where I live. Others may wish me to move. I did not become leader of the Lab...
3 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
3 years ago
The Compleat Blogger

University Challenge and Diversity - Another year, another rip-roaring University Challenge final, a fitting reward for those who endured the gruelling winter of repechages and qualification q...
3 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

Picnic At Hanging Rock - 1975 - I'm sure Peter Weir's spellbinding 1975 masterpiece, *Picnic At Hanging Rock*, needs little introduction here. With it's ethereal, otherworldly atmospher...
3 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
3 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
3 years ago
Island of Terror

The Bear You Can Wear - I have branched out into making tee shirts with a friend called *Nick* *Taylor*. The first on sale is *Barney, Karate Grizzly*, the first in our *Power ...
3 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
3 years ago
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

Chicklette - I think it really gripped me when it went black. Then just legs and... I like this. Feels like a tape some kids find and decide to play in the old VCR ...
3 years ago
ZONE OF THE FREE

BULGARIA TEK 2016 - 26-?.08.16 BeAcH aReA (BG) * BuLgArIatEk 2016 * --- 0pEn t0 aLL aRtIstS aNd SoUnD SyStEmS --- iNfoLiNe: +359 877 280 696 PICTURES LAST YEAR: ...
4 years ago
Interstice(ssg)

MNML SSGS party – Saturday 30 July - On Saturday night we have our next MNML SSGS party at Contact. This time we have invited two internationals who will both be playing in Japan for the first...
4 years ago
Speculative past

bottaslicious: motorsportsisterhood: Emma Kimiläinen... - bottaslicious: motorsportsisterhood: Emma Kimiläinen appreciation post (because the only result for her on Tumblr was a single shot of her car) f...
4 years ago
Phil Zone

- This is advance notice that I'm going to be killing off this blog in the next month or so, mainly because I'm trying to wean myself off being continually p...
4 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
4 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
4 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
4 years ago
vexations

A radical alien would not belong to the set of beings whose agency can – in Davidsons metaphor – be... - A radical alien would not belong to the set of beings whose agency can – in Davidsons metaphor – be triangulated by reference to a common world. Its agen...
4 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

Fast methods to improve battery life in your mobile - Battery life gets worse as cellphones get better. It is a basic fact of possession that is top 10 phones under 10000. However, you can find easy things y...
4 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
4 years ago
Vocalities

PIN (1988) - One of the best ventriloquism films I've seen. The wonderful thing about it is how PIN's voice is only validated as being a ventriloquised voice of ano...
4 years ago
Resolution Way/Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain: Barrow - Barrow is seated at his desk gazing out across the city, the day dissolving, night settling in soft, sooty layers, blunting the edges of the vast concrete...
4 years ago
Acousmata

My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely... - My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely responsible for the death of Acousmata– came out in November 2015. A history of experimental sou...
4 years ago
The Inkbottle

The End of 2015, the End of The Inkbottle - As this year comes to a close, I am also going to bring this blog to a close. It’s basically been closed for a while, since I’ve not posted much here over...
4 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
4 years ago
noir realism

H.P. Lovecraft: Quote of the Day! - “Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests are emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmo...
4 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
5 years ago
Joy Press

"Game of Thrones": An epic with a different ring - *Game of Thrones* premiere feature, Sunday Calendar cover of Los Angeles Times by Joy Press Gargantuan dire wolves, frozen tundras, corrupt royals, brutal ...
5 years ago
Spectres of Mark

Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s MoWest Story1971-1973(Originally published in The... - [image: image] *Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s MoWest Story1971-1973* (Originally published in The Wire) Light In The Attic CD/2XLP In t...
5 years ago
k-punk

Track listing for “Look what fear’s done to my body” - Track listing for “Look what fear’s done to my body”: “King of Sorrow (Cottonbelly Remix” – Sade “Too Much On My Mind” – The Kinks “Sittin’ Here” – Dizzee ...
5 years ago
Dirtnap

Reasons to be Drakeful: Wizkid – Ojuelegba - Wizkid – Ojuelegba (2014) In an ironically very Drake-like way, I’ve tussled with my feelings towards the Canadian child actor turned childish rapper for t...
5 years ago
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Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave at Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015 - Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave / Chronopoetik der Wendelsteinhöhle" "Zeit - Moment – Ewigkeit" - Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015, Bayrischzell, DE 2...
5 years ago
the spectral dimension

The Isle is full of Noises - Easy Sunday morning viewing. Lots of rippling nature scenes between people talking about pagan gods, skulls, shape-shifting animals, Halloween fires. ...
5 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
5 years ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

UC44 – UC63 Contents on one page - There is no index for these issues. Instead, here are all the contents pages assembled into a single page, which may be searched by Cntrl/Command-F: _____...
5 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
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Zone Styx Travelcard

- Thinking about that line in Simon Reynolds' Kate Bush piece about her not quite being cool... That's how I remember it, although I'm roughly a year younger...
6 years ago
pretty fantasmagorical

Century Falls - Do you hear that? That faint chiming sound in the distance, just detectable over the howl of the wind? Kind of melancholy… ethereal… vaguely threatening? Y...
6 years ago
croydon municipal

The making of How We Used To Live - Like most good stories, this one starts in a pub. For over a decade my band, Saint Etienne, has worked with director Paul Kelly on various short films and ...
6 years ago
From a High Horse

Can we get a Janelle Monáe/St. Vincent collaboration already? - I think it’s high time for these two like-minded performers to make the ultimate funky fembot album I saw Annie Clark live in concert for the first time th...
6 years ago
Rouge's Foam

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6 years ago
Beyond The Wychelm

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - In September 2013, my husband and I were lucky enough to attend Salvage: A Hacker Farm Field Trip in rural Somerset, where we enjoyed live performances by ...
6 years ago
Urban Trawl

Poundbury's Hidden Reverse - (the below is a review spiked by a prominent architecture monthly, apparently because they'd already published a lot of criticism of the author in question...
6 years ago
Musings of a socialist Japanologist

2013 in Music - Pt. 2 - *Pt. 2 We Going Tech* Right at the tail end of 2012, a thread was started on the music forum I frequent, dissensus, calling for a discussion on "Shuffling ...
6 years ago
bourgeoiseaux

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2013 - It's been ages since I've posted anything, mainly because of an increasingly busy life, but, as Ian Malcolm said, life finds a way. I don't have time for s...
6 years ago
Hardcore Phonography

kadrey: There’s a secret library in the New York City subway... - kadrey: *There’s a secret library in the New York City subway * “…The underground branch lives outside the turnstiles at the 51st Street 6 stop, and it...
6 years ago
Cathode Haze

Rewind - Over at AUFS, Adam Kotsko names the problem with the “recap” as a form of TV criticism. (Incidentally Adam, if you’re ever looking for somewhere to blog ab...
6 years ago
The Tory Imagination

In The Money - 'He then spent two years as a banker at Robert Fleming before following the family tradition by entering Panmure Gordon; he became a partner before the age...
6 years ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

1982 ➤ How Spandau put Capaldi on the road to play the new Doctor Who - ❚ WHAT’S THE CULTIEST ROLE in all of television, the one that’s just been given to the cultiest madman in all of TV comedy? Yes the new Doctor Who is annou...
7 years ago
NewNewMusicalExpress

New Beatles Grammar Compilation / November 2026 - The Beatles are to release the forth in their 'English Grammar best of the Beatles series', with a new compilation album entitled *The 'Do Not' Contraction...
7 years ago
k-punk

Three events this week ... - 1. Wednesday, 13 March at Waterstone's Trafalgar Square: Capitalist Realism: What is it and how to fight it With Mark Fisher, Peter Fleming and Alex Niven....
7 years ago
heroasides

How to. - A quick note on the text. To read sequentially just click "earlier posts" at the bottom of each page or work down the list of posts from Intro. The posts a...
7 years ago
Sea Songs

On Swansea City and England - I wish there could be an English Swansea City - a club simultaneously rooted in its community and traditions, outside the control of plutocrats *and *consc...
7 years ago
Mark Fisher ReBlog

“You won’t be able to stop yourself, you might as well enjoy it”: eXistenZ and noncognitive labour - (Originally published in Film Quarterly) [image: image] “Can what is playing you make it to level 2?” asked Nick Land in his landmark 1994 on cyber-theo...
7 years ago
The painted wrd

Till the World Ends - If the world is in fact ending at some point today, then now is as good a time as any to talk about guilty pleasures. Thus, in the spirit of pre-apocalypti...
7 years ago
holding out for a hero

Intro - In an interview in early 2012, doom-mongering Swiss Hedge Fund manager Marc Faber cast a jaundiced European eye back over the last thirty years and constr...
7 years ago
Velvet Coalmine

On liking American Psycho, slight return. - Written for Bad Reputation. The last time I wrote that yes, I did like American Psycho, and no, that wasn’t because I’d only seen the film, I was pleasantl...
8 years ago
the hauntological society

The films of Stanley Kubrick - *"I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner...
9 years ago
Sound & Society - A music criticism blog

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etc home | The History Project

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Noughties blog

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Epsilonia/Radio Libertaire - Home | Facebook

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DJ Food

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slouching toward babylon

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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The Mire

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its her factory / its her duty

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Docklands Light Musicway - Home

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Benny Brassic | Mixcloud

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the answers to the questions of the future lie in the past, or vice-versa

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Creel Pone on YouTube

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Content warning

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Wounds of Class

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Woebot's Spotlight page on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds

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futureproofing

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