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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 49 Willie Nelson - Stardust - Recommended by Mick Jones - The last of this particular run. I recommend the book to music and vinyl enthusiasts like myself.
4 hours ago
xenogothic

More Theology of the Seething Cosmic Void: Notes on Scaling from Spinoza to Negarestani - As part of the XG Discord reading group, we’ve been reading (and reading around) Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia. In week one, we talked about how the text...
16 hours 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 ...
18 hours ago
thebluemoment.com

The fast life of Buddy Featherstonhaugh - When Buddy Featherstonhaugh died in 1976, aged 66, the tuppence in his pocket was just about all he owned. Five divorces had seen to that. But what a time ...
20 hours ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Exploito All’Italiana: Paganini Horror (Luigi Cozzi, 1989) - You don’t need a PhD in Italian cinema to realise that the nation’s commercial film industry was in pretty dire straits by the tail end of the 1980s. Sim...
21 hours ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

The New York Dolls in the Denim Age - [image: too much.jpg] [image: Landlubber.jpg] Here, for your delectation, are two images never before juxtaposed: the New York Dolls and a crowded rock f...
22 hours ago
WARREN ELLIS LTD

29may20 - It is somehow the end of the week again. Week 135 of lockdown, I think. I am very behind with work and still haven’t been able to clear time to think about...
1 day ago
cardrossmaniac2

Mo Movies 33 - *Battles Without Honour and Humanity *aka *Tarnished Code of Yakuza* *(1973)* A Yakuza film that apparently changed the face of the Yakuza genre although ...
1 day ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

contractions / contradictions - From the Salvage Collective’s third Covid State Dispatch. The opening salvo deserves constant repetition: The hubris of seeing in this moment the inevitabi...
1 day ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

1979 ➤ Ethereal Bowie sets the bar for one of his inadvertent hits - ◼ HERE’S A RARE CHANCE TO VIEW one of the most inspired renderings of The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie with the bizarre German punk Klaus Nomi as ba...
1 day ago
We Are the Mutants

“Fact—Not Fiction”: UFO Journals from the Archives for the Unexplained - By *Michael Grasso* Here is a global subculture, in the days before wide adoption of the internet, which ends up assembling and organizing itself in a modu...
1 day ago
Datacide

Our web site is blacklisted by facebook - If you’re using facebook you may have noticed that this very web site has been blacklisted. It is no longer possible to link to it from facebook, and all ...
2 days ago
Lost Turntable

Tomita covering Elvis and such - Japan has been lifting its state of emergency gradually over the past couple of weeks, as cases of the coronavirus here have declined. Last week, most reco...
3 days ago
The Vigilant Citizen

The Simpsons’ Clip About a “Cat Flu” Was Incredibly Prophetic - In a 2010 episode of The Simpsons, a "secret conclave of America's media empires" releases a deadly virus to "put Americans back where they belong: In da...
3 days ago
Real Life

Contested Images - The challenges of visualizing the pandemic
4 days ago
Airport Through The Trees

Scary/Funny - The implications of the development of this kind of technology are not even fathomable, but, for now, just enjoy.
4 days ago
A Year In The Country

Whistle Down the Wind – A Time Capsule New Wave Cinematic Landscape: Wanderings 11/26 - Whistle Down the Wind is one of those films that when I was young I remember as always being on TV, along with the likes of the 1970 version of The Railway...
5 days ago
It's Full of Stars

Yellow Blancmange - Speaking of new albums that were made here at Memetune central - the vinyl arrived for the album I did with Mr Arthur - and its on yellow vinyl! I love it...
5 days ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Real Life Rock Top 10, May 2020: the Don’t-know-What-You-Got-But-It’s-Got-Me edition - This month’s Real Life Rock Top 10 features Little Richard, X, Ratt, Whitesnake, Bob Dylan, Ozark, Glenn Danzig, Billy “the kid” Emerson, and more… Los Ang...
6 days ago
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The Black Hole at the Heart of Parliament - CORONA – 2. In Astronomy, the rarefied gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars. The sun’s corona is normally visible only during a total solar eclipse,...
6 days 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...
1 week ago
BLDGBLOG

Body Sonic / Coronavirus Surroundsound - [Image: A shot of “Carl Craig: Party/After-Party” (2020), by Don Stahl, via Artforum.] There’s a great moment in a recent article by Jace Clayton, who revi...
1 week ago
Cut and Run

Experimental x Pop - Ben W. t(h)reads the fine ground between Experimental Music and (Electronic) Pop, genres of considerable aesthetic overlap despite radically different inte...
1 week ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

KLUSTER 1969-1972 (6 VINYL + 1 Vinyl LP Single Sided - BOX - QBICO 2009) (MP3 320) - *A petición popular repongo este soberbio documento sonoro del que muchos links estaban rotos.* *Una caja con seis vinilos más uno de una sola cara de Kl...
1 week ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

NEWSREEL SOUNDSA collage of sounds derived from the 1960s/70s... - *NEWSREEL SOUNDS* A collage of sounds derived from the 1960s/70s political films of the NEWSREEL collective and Santiago Álvarez. Resource: NEWSREEL fil...
1 week ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • May 17, 2020 -
1 week ago
Found Objects

The Secret Life of Edward James - The wealthy, eccentric British collector of surrealist art. 1978, 53 mins, presented by George Melly. Contains footage of LEONORA CARRINGTON (both live...
2 weeks ago
WOEBOT

Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness - Now available for pre-order.
2 weeks ago
lunarlodge

Pike’s Hollow (scene 1) - Randolph Pike gets an earful from Dr. Ranieri.
2 weeks ago
Pop Theory

The Challenges of Learning at a Distance - There is lots of discussion in higher education right now about the challenges, and risks, of transferring teaching programmes ‘online’ – as an emergency r...
2 weeks ago
(SF) 365

Reveal - It's been 4 months or more since I posted on here, but I must confess, I have been unfaithful to this blog. I have been posting elsewhere. There is a reas...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
it's her factory

Enrolling in my online Fall 2020 “Theories of Neoliberalism” grad/undergrad seminar as a non-UNCC student - As part of UNCC’s plan to have a mix of F2F, hybrid, and fully online courses in the fall to deal with COVID-19, my 4000/5000 level seminar has been moved ...
2 weeks ago
Trevor Barre

The ‘Alternative’/’Mainstream’ Trope - Whilst perusing the Trash Theory vids posted on YouTube, I’ve been struck by the prevalence of one particular *archetype* (to use a different conceit to ...
3 weeks ago
Ace Linguist

General Blog Update: May 8, 2020 - Hello friends! At the very end of April, I finally succeeded in two goals: re-writing an older article that I no longer agree with entirely, and making a...
3 weeks ago
Nina Power

THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT – J G Ballard - Within a few minutes the next attack will begin. Now that I am surrounded for the first time by all the members of my family it seems only fitting that a c...
3 weeks ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I watched Alex Lee Moyer’s Tfw No Gf last night with the same embarrassed resignation that I’ve had with pretty much any writing on the “incel phenomenon”:...
3 weeks ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Sing me a line from your favourite song - “Ever get that feeling, when you experience some sort of musical epiphany and strive to memorize the melody and the lyrics of a song you have just listened...
4 weeks ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Girl on the Train - *In 2013, while acting as Director and Curator of Peter Whitehead’s Nohzone Archive I worked on the publication of his novel, *Girl on the Train*. We ...
4 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
The New Vulgate

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

- PREDICTION TABLET Amorous marble. Redeem voucher. Enter incarnate maelstrom. The torque of cyclonic matter. Martyrdom broadcast. 11 pas...
5 weeks 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 ...
1 month ago
The Pirate Archive

Exile-Temp - The post Exile-Temp appeared first on The Pirate Archive.
1 month 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’...
1 month 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 ...
1 month ago
Jason Phereus,

auspicious/ominous timing -
2 months ago
streams of expression

Elaine Mitchener Solo -- Café Oto Livestream, 23.03.20 - March 2020 has moved incredibly quickly, for reasons of which anyone reading this will be all too aware. Likewise, this will be no doubt littered with ty...
2 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

new publication: the racialized Brooklynization of the Hudson Valley - An article I’ve co-authored with Joshua Simons (from SUNY New Paltz’s Benjamin Center) has just been published in the academic journal City & Community. Ti...
2 months ago
Portals of London

Silent city heat: The Herne Hill Membrane - Brockwell Lido on the first warm Saturday of spring. That’s the bittersweet image preoccupying Yua Fremantle in these strange, shut-down days. She wrote ...
2 months ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
2 months ago
64 Quartets

4. Queen - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAYLIST (+) Get drunk and sing along to Queen R.E.M., “The Wake-Up Bomb” Earls Court, 197...
2 months ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

Room40 publishes ‘Aki Onda: I Lost My Memory’ - An artist’s book has been published to coincide with Room40‘s digital re-release of the three volumes of Aki Onda‘s Cassette Memories sound project. The li...
2 months ago
joy of speed

Satellite Anthem Icarus -
2 months ago
Sounding Out!

Listen to yourself!: Spotify, Ancestry DNA, and the Fortunes of Race Science in the Twenty-First Century - If you could listen to your DNA, what would it sound like? A few answers, at random: In 1986, the biologist and amateur musician Susumo Ohno assigned pitch...
2 months ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Death Panels- Temerity - Temerity by Death Panels
2 months ago
East of Borneo

Douglas Aircraft employees on roller skates, Santa Monica, 12 May 1943 - During WW II, writer Esther McCoy worked as a draftsman at Douglas Aircraft. At the Santa Monica facility, the drafting room was two city blocks long: bl...
2 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...
2 months ago
History is made at night

Poll Tax Archive (6): Barnet and Edgware Hospital Workers against the Poll Tax - Here is an example of some workplace organising against the poll tax in the NHS. 'Edgware Nurses Against Poll Tax' - I believe this was taken at a picket o...
3 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...
3 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.
3 months ago
Modernism Unbound

Tunes 2011-2019, by Burial - Dubstep / Hyperdub / December 6, 2019 – Reviewed by Jon Lindblom Tunes 2011 to 2019 by Burial As the title indicates, Tunes 2011-2019 is a massive compilat...
4 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. ...
4 months ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
5 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...
6 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…
6 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. ...
6 months ago
davidtoop

emanation, as if by a charm: Ami Yamasaki - Surprise is a dubious pleasure, cultivated in the search for musical forms that take the listener into realms of impossible/imaginary. Then suddenly, after...
6 months ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
8 months ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
11 months 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
INTO THE SWAMP

The Singles Jukebox » Britney Spears: A Mid-Career Retrospective - The Singles Jukebox » Britney Spears: A Mid-Career Retrospective: *“Sllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaave….!” she sings, purrs, drawls — all at the one time — making sure...
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...
1 year 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.
1 year 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...
1 year 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 [...]
1 year ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
1 year 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
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
2 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...
2 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: ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
3 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
3 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
3 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!
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 years ago
_* _+ // /// ///////// Picnoleptics

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...
4 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
5 years ago
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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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
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...
7 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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Epsilonia/Radio Libertaire - Home | Facebook

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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DJ Food

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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slouching toward babylon

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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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