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blog to the oldskool

Blog To The Oldskool Radio Show 17.09.2017 Archive - Sunday 17th September we had another edition of the BTTO Radio Show. Lovely to see some fresh faces in the chat. Pete DevNull took the first hour and s...
3 hours ago
KID SHIRT - Blog

BOB DYLAN'S DREAM - Woke up from most absurd dream ever:Bob Dylan got a parking-ticket! This was early seventies Bob, but with looonger ringleted hair than Real Bob ever had, ...
6 hours ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

The Prince of Wales Theatre, Dickie Henderson and the Ross Sisters - When the last chord of ‘Twist and Shout’ came to an end, the Beatles grouped together at the front of the Prince of Wales Theatre stage. The blue curtain s...
8 hours ago
Prole Sector

Aquarian: Hamburglar Helper (Hanger Management) - Aquarian massively on point again and he’s upped the bass, yet again, bigtime. Seems to do it everytime. First listen you think ‘ho-hum’, all a bit techno ...
9 hours ago
WOEBOT

Banksy Basquiat Barbican - Cycled past these at 8.36am on the way to work at the foot of Golden Lane. His critique of the municipalisation of art innit. Just noticed the crown! Sh...
10 hours ago
A Year In The Country

Artifact Reports #37/52a: The Quietened Cosmologists Writing, Posts and Broadcasts - Some of the recent The Quietened Cosmologists album related writing, posts and broadcasts: Vic Mars, Keith Seatman, Field Lines Cartographer and Poylpore...
18 hours ago
East of Borneo

An arts nonprofit closes shop after ‘constant attacks’ by anti-gentrification activists - From the Los Angeles Times (February 22, 2017): “Citing harassment and online trolling, the co-founders of an art space in Boyle Heights announced Tuesday ...
21 hours ago
森と記録の音楽

[150] Erik Kramer - A House, Floating In The Middle Of A Lake - Label: Anthropocene Recordings Catalog#: AR01 Format: Cassette, Album Country: US Released: 2017 DISCOGS 1 Other Spaces 5:39 2 Ghost Of The Harvest 3:27 3...
23 hours ago
Sounds of the Dawn

Sounds of the Dawn NTS Radio September 16th 2017 - Tracklist Environments – Night in the Country Todd Barton – Music and Poetry of the Kesh Rajneesh Foundation – Ashram Jonathan Goldman ‎– Song Of Saraswati...
1 day ago
Sounding Out!

Sounding Out Tarima Temporalities: Decolonial Feminista Dance Disruption - For the full intro to the forum by Michelle Habell-Pallan, click here. For the first installment by Yessica Garcia Hernandez click here. For the second p...
1 day ago
Lost Turntable

Funky Drummer and Bad Madonna - Okay, I lied. I’m going to keep trying to get my old Twitter account back, I have a few more tricks up my sleeves. I know what you’re thinking, “James, you...
1 day ago
Velvet Coalmine

Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them - Under My Thumb is a collection of women’s music writing, edited by Eli Davies and me, in which contributors discuss being fans of politically dubious music...
1 day ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Deathblog: Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017) - Well, so long Harry Dean. What can we say about the man that hasn’t exhaustively been said elsewhere, or that isn’t immediately made obvious through wat...
3 days ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

The Curse of the Crying Woman - [image: Image result for curse of the crying woman] *The Curse of the Crying Woman* (1961 / 63). Dir. Rafael Baledon Shortly before dawn on Saturday July 15...
3 days ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Take Five Really Swings! - Hello! If you're wondering why things have been a bit quiet around here, that's because I've got a brand new website, the front page of which can be foun...
3 days ago
Jason Phereus,

Will Sniff - Broke Zipper (OFFICIAL VIDEO) -
4 days ago
Pop Theory

Alternative Urbanisms: Call for Papers - Do please circulate the Call for Papers below for a session at the Annual Meeting of the AAG next April, in New Orlean, on the theme of Alternative Urbanis...
4 days ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

RIP Grant Hart -
4 days ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

Videos from WLMA - WLMA likes: This anti-Brexit song by Ova’s Rosemary Schonfeld – you can hear her performing it here: https://youtu.be/0UHj9sqtBDI The Ace of Cups – a wom...
5 days ago
davidtoop

a distributed conglomerate instrument - While eating shojin ryori cuisine outdoors at Izusen, Daitokuji temple, Kyoto, in spring sunshine, April past, I reflected on François Jullien’s In Praise ...
5 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

93 'ardcore/Darkside..... - I'd heard *Megadrive*'s *Takin Control EP* which contained the tune *Demon* from '92. I thought I'd come across *Mega 2* before but perhaps I haven't. Cl...
6 days ago
Found Objects

The Open Road - If you have been fortunate enough to read Rob Young's rather wonderful piece in Sight and Sound Magazine, The Pattern Under The Plough (Aug 2010) you mig...
6 days ago
Musical Urbanism |

how the Queen Street West scene began, pt. 2: OCA bands - How did a bunch of kids in suburban Thornhill ignite a Toronto music scene and bring new energy to Queen Street West, now a hip urban neighborhood? My last...
1 week ago
Rockets & Rayguns

benefits of living in a lighthouse - post–grad: - no fake friends, just real friends (the only ones who’ll come out to your godforsaken lighthouse to hang) - lots of stairs so u do...
1 week ago
Critical-Theory.com

5 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in August, 2017 - Agamben, Morton and more.
1 week ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

ALBUM REVIEW: L.A. Witch – L.A.. Witch - http://www.music-news.com/review/UK/12755/Album/L-A-Witch After treading the tour circuit for three years L.A. Witch have decided to name, shame and docume...
1 week ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

VARIOUS ‎– AN ANTHOLOGY OF TURKISH EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC 1961-2014 (SUBROSA LABEL, 2016) (FLAC) - *Vamos a ver si no me tumban este post...* *Os presento una compilación de música experimental hecha por artistas turcos que cubre un período de cinco dé...
1 week ago
thebluemoment.com

Extraordinaire: Cécile McLorin Salvant - Two years ago I presented Cécile McLorin Salvant and her trio at the Berlin jazz festival. At that point, most of the audience hadn’t heard of the young Fr...
1 week ago
Our God is Speed

Because - Honestly, back in the days when Julian Cope's *Krautrocksampler* doc became the Young Person's Guide to Same, I took issue with the author's assertion t...
1 week ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

ACETONE 1992-2001 (Light In The Attic Records) - “*Acetone are one of my all time favorite bands. Their music is still as electrifying and beautiful now as it was back then.*” – Hope Sandoval Acetone w...
2 weeks ago
The Hum Blog

on knud viktor’s ambiences / images, issued by bin in conjunction with institut for dansk lydarkæologi - Knud Viktor – Ambiences / Images (2017) In an era marked by the resurrection of remarkable music, we hardly need a reminder that the history of the sonic a...
2 weeks ago
joy of speed

A A Bondy - I'm On Fire -
2 weeks ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- Ascending vibration/parodic big band/aboard Zeppelin in death spiral /the parping tuba/burlesques/incipient doom. Bootstrap/to higher consciousness/outsourc...
2 weeks ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Historiograph: Cabaret Voltaire (1983) - There are two versions of footnotes for this piece: 1) a text-only version following the main body (below); 2) a visual version of each note, sometimes acc...
2 weeks ago
Rave Archive UK »

Telepathy – Skibadees World Cup Blazer – Ministry of Sound – 2002 - Telepathy – Skibadees World Cup Blazer – Ministry of Sound – 03.06.02 Grooverider – Telepathy – 03.06.02 Download/Play Side A Download/Play Side B Twisted...
3 weeks ago
streams of expression

SPLINTER Magazine Out Now! - First issue of a new, bi-monthly magazine edited by myself and Gizem Okulu. Poems from Janani Ambikapathy, David Brazil, Christina Chalmers, James Goodwin,...
3 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Jerry Lewis - Jerry Lewis is a figure who has haunted me — or, who has played a major role in my Imaginary — for most of my life. In 1963, when I was nine years old, my ...
4 weeks ago
It's Full of Stars

Re-Animator - Re-animating an Akai S612 with the amazing Hideaway Studios *Front Panel Animator* modification. Here I am playing the Buchla Easel into the S612 and usin...
4 weeks ago
The Pirate Archive

Fusion FM - Fusion FM broadcast to The Black Country on 90.2 FM. They featured a few people who had been involved in Explosion FM, although Fusion had a more dance m...
1 month ago
leaving earth

hidden reflections of a dysfunctional world - If a golden age of musical originality and innovation happens and no one builds a movement and narrative around it, did it actually create anything new? Di...
1 month ago
it's her factory

An Update - 2017 brings some big life changes for me, so I thought I’d update everyone on what’s happening and how that’s affecting my work. My partner will be startin...
1 month ago
History is made at night

Summer Rites 1997: Lesbian and Gay free festival in Brockwell Park - 20 years ago - on 2 August 1997 - the second Summer Rites lesbian and gay free festival was held in Brixton's Brockwell Park. Coming just a few week after ...
1 month ago
The Work Trials

LICHFIELD INTERROGATES: Everything Everything's Jonathan Higgs - *I first interviewed Everything Everything way back in 2009 around a year before their debut Man Alive, catching up with bassist Jeremy Pritchard for a cha...
1 month ago
Blue Lines Revisited

allofthemarvels: From “It Happened at Woodstock!” in My Love... - allofthemarvels: From “It Happened at Woodstock!” in My Love #14, 1971. Probably the most bluntly sexual thing I’ve seen in a Marvel romance comic… anywa...
2 months ago
Rouge's Foam

Study Day: Is There a Musical Avant-Garde Today? - I'm helping to run and speaking at a study day in London next week, 'Is there a Musical Avant-Garde today?' Come along! We're expecting great research and...
2 months ago
Disposable Everything

Joydah -
2 months ago
Sonic Truth

Only missing the Vicks - A school hall in deepest Kent, late Saturday night. Pounding beats and unbridled dancing in a sweatbox. Yes, the Rave for Refugees fundraiser threw 80 or s...
2 months ago
Southern Discomfort

The Gospel According to Courttia - ‘These are not good times,’ Nile Rogers once wrote about another city in the midst of turmoil. He had … Continue reading →
2 months ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Everything in Its Place - To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
2 months ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I wrote a review of John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea show at the Arnolfini, that’s in the new number of Dandelion.
2 months ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

HOMEWORK / Abbas Kiarostami (1989, Iran) - *HOMEWORK* / Abbas Kiarostami (1989, Iran)
2 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • June 15, 2017 - *IN THIS UPDATE:* Bryan Ferry; Robert Fripp; Talking Heads: *Fear Of Music*; David Bowie; Brian Eno: *Eno Box II - Vocals*; Brian Eno's *Reflection*; Jon...
3 months 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 months ago
IX Tab

Buy The World Is Not Where We Are on CD - It's on the sidebar and now it's here too. Prices (all incl P&P) UK £8.23 GBP Europe £11.23 GBP Rest of World £13.23 GBP
3 months 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 months ago
Mark Richardson

What do you love about the Empire State building? - I assume this is in reference to the fact that I frequently post photos of the Empire State Building on my Instagram. I will say it’s probably the NYC sy...
4 months ago
(SF) 365

Fantastika (and After) - Having returned home from this year's Fantastika conference, organised by my (now former) PhD student Chuckie Palmer-Patel, I feel tired but invigorated b...
4 months ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
4 months ago
The Night Mail

10 Records of 2016: Beyoncé's Lemonade - *(An essay about music writing as political praxis)* *Contents:* - Introduction - Let's Talk About Talking About *Lemonade* - I. Authority - II. Decision - ...
4 months 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...
5 months ago
INTO THE SWAMP

Trel Itz A Hit 225 - Da Drip (internetz, 2017)Trel/Biggz is a... - Trel Itz A Hit 225 - Da Drip (internetz, 2017) Trel/Biggz is a producer from Baton Rouge, best known for last year’s ‘Cross Me’, a bouncy piece of steel ...
5 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Postcards from the Fjords – Nord Label - “Electronic music is art, not just entertainment” – Simon Viehoff, Nord Label founder Nord Label is a small independent electronic music record label, base...
6 months 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...
7 months 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 ...
7 months 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 ...
7 months ago
Boring Old Books

The Craft of Model Making - Thomas Bayley, The Dryad Press, Leicester
7 months ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

Hope and Resistance in the Age of Donald Trump - Americans have now entered into one of the most sickening and dangerous periods of the 21st century. Trump is not only a twisted caricature of every regist...
7 months 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 ...
8 months ago
Soundboy

My favourite books, films, music and meals of 2016 - For the 5th year running I give you some arbitrary rankings of some media products from 2016. New non-media categories added this year! Books 1. JR 2...
8 months ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
9 months 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.

A brief statement - I haven’t paid as much attention as some people have to Murdoch’s latest attempt to take total control of Sky because I do not regard its precise ownership...
9 months ago
marathonpacks

pitchfork:From YouTube, to Pandora, to Spotify, streaming music is piloting our listening habits in... - pitchfork: From YouTube, to Pandora, to Spotify, streaming music is piloting our listening habits in fascinating new ways that both upend old hierarchie...
9 months ago
Drumtrip

DJ Crystl Interview – Generator Mag 1995 - Hello there, it’s been a while. Sadly this isnt a triumphant return for Drumtrip, but I had to upload this DJ Crystl that forumite Stringz posted on DOA....
9 months ago
Binary Heap

Bring Da Noise: A Brief Survey of Sound Art – Kenneth Goldsmith - Over the past few years, sound art has been more visible in America. The Whitney has been including it in its Biennials and it even had its own section in ...
10 months 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 ...
10 months ago
Mutant Technology

Elektronik – Soundtracks & other oddities by Marc Dauncey - I’m pleased to present my latest mix, Elektronik. A project to compile some of the most powerful synthesised music ever made – from the ultra minimal elect...
11 months ago
Airport Through The Trees

For No Reason Other Than - Just wanted to remind the handful of people who read this blog and who may have forgotten or even never knew that this record exists and was released in an...
1 year 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: ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Internal exile

Photo -
1 year ago
up close and personal

The future then -
1 year ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
1 year 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...
1 year 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 smart-phone. However, you can find easy things you can do to m...
1 year ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
THE SIXTH EAR.

Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track, BBC Arts - BBC - Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track, BBC Arts - BBC: I would love a track by track treatment in this vein. Wouldn’t we all? Really amazi...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Fantastic Hope

PEEP SHOW, AN EPITAPH: OR WHY COMEDY WINS IN THE END - Why Peep Show worked from a writerly, directorial perspective: Take two pretentious middle-class ‘dudes’ with very little intellectual and political aw...
1 year ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
1 year 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...
1 year ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Rouge's Foam

I don’t say a lot on social media. I don’t know who my audience is. Recently, much of it... - I don’t say a lot on social media. I don’t know who my audience is. Recently, much of it has been people from the online networks of underground music I ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Tower of Sleep

3 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing Effectiveness - Knowing how to hire the right digital marketing agency will help turn your Internet marketing into a profit-producing tool. When your email is first open...
2 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. ...
2 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
2 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: _____...
2 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
2 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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....
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
6 years ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

1983 ➤ Showdown for Worlds End, Vivienne and Malcolm - The creator of this website, Shapers of the 80s, was photographing the runway in Paris on the day the King and Queen of Outrage realised the end was nigh. ...
8 years ago
Sound & Society - A music criticism blog

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etc home | The History Project

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Dream Transmissions

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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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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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ecstatic apophenia

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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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Friday, February 14, 2014

cruel optimism - a video essay

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