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Sounding Out!

Sounding Out! Podcast #58: The Meaning of Silence - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: The Meaning of Silence SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST In this podcast Marc...
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WOEBOT

iTunes Library Corruption -
4 hours ago
Rockets & Rayguns

highway62: atomic-chronoscaph: The Story of Tron - Read-Along... - highway62: atomic-chronoscaph: *The Story of Tron* - Read-Along Book and Record (1982) I must have this.
12 hours ago
KID SHIRT - Blog

DULCIE MURRAY REVIEWS 3-INCH IMPROV - One of the best reviews I've ever read. Get out the way, Bangs, Coley, etc !Dulcie Murray reviews the hell out of my recent-ish release 3-Inch Improv (and ...
18 hours ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Deathblog:Herschell Gordon Lewis (1929-2016) - Whilst I can’t really claim to be a die-hard fan (I haven’t actually sat down and watched one of his pictures in years), Herschell Gordon Lewis is such a...
21 hours ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

RIP Kashif - Kashif's hotspot was during the early 80s when he took synths and made them sound "sophisticated". Schmeared at the Venn center of jazz-funk, quiet storm,...
22 hours ago
The Hum Blog

the premier of j.h. guraj’s underrated glances at the edge of town - J.H. Guraj – Underrated Glances at the Edge of Town (2016) Instruments come with weight – the burden of history, saturation, ubiquity, and the endless acco...
1 day ago
Sounds of the Dawn

Bernard Xolotl ‎– Music By Xolotl -
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A Year In The Country

Audiological Transmission #39/52: No More Unto The Dance – A Moment Of Optimism - Tranmission sent, received, transmitted: Dave Thompson in his Spincycle section at Goldmine Magazine: “…never loses sight of the beat, the heartbeat that...
3 days ago
Found Objects

Its Not What it Seems (Erectronic) - Found this ad in and old copy of Mechanix Illustrated from March 1961. Could not resist posting it.
3 days ago
thebluemoment.com

‘In C’ at the Barbican - One of the great qualities of Terry Riley’s In C, a foundational work of modern music, is that it can be played by any number of people using any kind of i...
3 days ago
It's Full of Stars

Wradio Six Music - Check out our show on Marc Riley's programme on Tuesday. Its here - Thanks Marc!
4 days ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- took me more than a year to find this mix on youtube, dance music history is a nonsense
4 days ago
Lost Turntable

Greg Hawkes To Save The Future - The world is a garbage fire of misery and despair! Let’s listen to obscure 80s music until we don’t feel anything anymore! Greg Hawkes Niagara Falls Twenty...
5 days ago
it's her factory

Thinking about dash- and body-cam videos with Robert Gooding-Williams - This October I’m speaking as part of the Robert Gooding-Williams Scholar Session at SPEP. Part of my talk discusses his work on the Rodney King video. Give...
6 days ago
Velvet Coalmine

- I’ve just finished reading Sylvia Patterson’s book on her life as a music journalist and felt instantly compelled to recommend it. It’s very like Viv Alb...
6 days ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

ALBUM REVIEW: The Lucid Dream – Compulsion Songs - http://www.music-news.com/review/UK/12141/Album/The-Lucid-Dream ‘All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together’ Jack Kerouac C...
1 week ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

Hatchet 3 - NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN 'BRAINBLOODVOLUME' ALBUM REVIEW, MELODY MAKER, 1995 - [HEADLINE & STANDFIRST: TRASHED! We asked NEIL KULKARNI to review the new NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN LP. Instead, he's written one very long sentence, and one ...
1 week ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

The Lo-Techs (1983)Three mates from Fisher Park High School in... - The Lo-Techs (1983) Three mates from Fisher Park High School in Ottawa move to Vancouver, form a band, and under the advisement of former Payolas bassist...
1 week ago
Jason Phereus,

- I'll be representing the mighty Repeater Books at this mini-Indy-Lit-fest next week, reading from Resolution Way I guess. Also a nice review of the book h...
1 week ago
blog to the oldskool

BTTO Radio tonight, Sunday Sept 18th - BTTO Radio is back tonight, Sunday September 18th at 5pm est/ 10pm uk time on jungletrain.net. Second hour will also be streamed live from The Jungletrain....
1 week ago
cardrossmaniac2

Podcasts - Bowie Edition - David Bowie has been there all my life. He was on the radio, on the telly, on my brothers tape deck, played at discos, on production duties for some of m...
1 week ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2016 ➤ On film: two electrifying hours of The Beatles as they’ve never been seen and heard - ◼ LAST NIGHT AT A LONDON CINEMA I saw the most exciting live pop concert since the same band played live in the Swinging Sixties. Ron Howard’s new Beatles ...
1 week ago
Southern Discomfort

Making History/histories-being-made: Mourinho – Ronaldo – Príncipe Discos - [Note: Three pieces accumulated with an imperial thread: Jose Mourinho’s dramatics, Cristiano Ronaldo’s glory, Lisbon record label Príncipe Discos’ differe...
2 weeks ago
Our God is Speed

Strungout on Jargon (Slight Return) - *TEMPLATE 6: The Disneyland/ Dystopian Paradise/Planned Utopia Artist Statement $21.99:* Step 1: talk about how your interest in planned communities cam...
2 weeks ago
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

Valerie - Not that one. Here's Thighpaulsandra, whose Golden Communion record is starting to worm its way into my life. This one, goes all over the place and through...
2 weeks ago
Critical-Theory.com

8 Books That Came Out Last Month, August 2016 - Luxemburg, Foucault, Benjamin and more.
3 weeks ago
Island of Terror

This Holiday Will Be Just Like Any Other Holiday - *The Magic Fountain* is an animated series that flitted around the periphery of my memory for almost forty years. The trouble was that I could remember o...
3 weeks ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

“Face down in the dirt…” (‘Ask Greil’ update, 09-04-16) - GM on “Gimme Shelter” vs. “Gimmie Shelter,” “Mary Clayton” vs. “Merry Clayton,” and more.
3 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno updates • September 2, 2016 - IN THIS UPDATE: Brian Eno: The Bells Of Berriew; Damon Albarn; Dieter Moebius; John Cale; James; Peter Gabriel; Starmus Festival; Bluedot Festival; Brian E...
3 weeks ago
Rouge's Foam

Bubblebath Episode 01 ft. Mat Dryhurst (for RBMA Radio) - Art by Kim Laughton The first episode of my new monthly show for RBMA Radio aired a few days ago, and is archived here. Bubblebath is a two-hour show all r...
4 weeks ago
Mark Richardson

Quick Thought About Robots - Tonight I watched *Lo and Behold*, the new Werner Herzog movie. It’s about the internet, and robots, and artificial intelligence, and where technology mi...
5 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Frank Ocean, ENDLESS — first thoughts - Frank Ocean’s Endless contains lots of gorgeous music, though it is difficult to take it all in on first listen. The music is mostly low-key, soulful r&b, ...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
Disposable Everything

Joydah - A quick note on my musical work: I’m hoping to release the first record of my ‘Joydah’ project, Jouissance, towards the end of this year. In the meantime I...
1 month ago
The Compleat Blogger

Underexposed Albums #6: Rapoon – Tin Of Drum - Underexposed Albums is a series devoted to uncovering albums lost, neglected, or forgotten by the wider music community. Albums must have fewer than 5000 l...
1 month 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 month ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

Pierre Henry ‎– Le Livre Des Morts Égyptien (1990 CD Mantra ‎– MANTRA 043) (FLAC) - *Pierre Henry* Nunca fue a la escuela, sus padres contrataban educadores que lo visitaban en su ...
1 month ago
(SF) 365

Al-Andalus - Well, I haven’t done this for a while. Anyway, me and the family have just got back from the Altiplano de Granada in southern Spain – in Andalucia, in fac...
1 month ago
Pop Theory

Towards a Geography of Injustice - Just in time for anyone still wondering what they should pack to read by the beach this summer, here is a short paper by me entitled Towards a Geography o...
1 month ago
East of Borneo

RMS, 1944–45: Bethlehem Baptist Church - by Susan Morgan [image: 1469569684_01318v] R. M. Schindler's Bethlehem Baptist Church, built for an African American congregation in South Central L.A. in 1...
1 month ago
Blue Lines Revisited

imathers: This is beautiful. - imathers: This is beautiful.
2 months 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...
2 months ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

‘What about the women!’ - We loved finding this graffiti on the notice in the corridor outside the British Library’s exhibition on punk rock http://www.bl.uk/events/punk-1976-78 wit...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
Binary Heap

Pierre Henry, Pioneer Musique Concrète - “Pierre Henry was born in Paris, France, and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the ...
2 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Fantasy FM – Sheffield - Fantasy FM broadcast from Sheffield on 101.9 FM. If anyone has any more information on Fantasy FM, please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To downlo...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
INTO THE SWAMP

Daniel Wrote It. - Daniel Wrote It.: Hi! I don’t know if anyone still follows me, but please follow my writing blog, where I put up all my published work. I may even come ba...
2 months ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

darkmatter Web Admin/Developer - *darkmatter*, an open access, independent online journal established in 2007 that is committed to pursuing contemporary anti-racist/post-colonial critiqu...
2 months ago
streams of expression

Further Announcements - *==============================* *BREXIT BORDERS KILL* *Published July 2016* *==============================* This magazine has been put together i...
2 months ago
Ghosts in the TV

nemfrog: Magazine cover. “Japanese computers.” Byte. May... - nemfrog: Magazine cover. “Japanese computers.” *Byte.* May 1982.
2 months ago
Sonic Truth

Henged - It was an event we had long planned for our twins, born 10 weeks early on June 21 2006. Take them to summer solstice at Stonehenge for their 10th birthday,...
3 months ago
Internal exile

Photo -
3 months ago
up close and personal

The future then -
3 months ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- Hello again, have you missed me? I’ve been meaning to get in touch, but somehow, I haven’t quite felt able. I hope you understand. I’ve had so little goo...
3 months ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
3 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

The Alchemical Landscape II - *Headlands* Following on from the success of the first Alchemical Landscape symposium in March 2015, we're mounting a second event. It will be held at Gir...
3 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

nu-metal, affective masculinities and suburban identities: guest blog by Niccolo Dante Porcello - [Here’s the second 2016 senior thesis in musical urbanism I’m pleased to share on this blog. Too young to experience nu-metal when it first came out, Nicco...
3 months ago
Prole Sector

Rinse FM podcasts - Some bangin’ new show/mixes up on the Rinse FM site to recommend. If you feel you need to play catch up on all things Grimey/Dubstep then look no further t...
3 months ago
IX Tab

Woebot Mix - Woebot already said nice things about the IX Tab / Hoofus thing here and now he's included one of my tracks in one of his mixes... there's a lot of good st...
3 months ago
leaving earth

poststep lingers - 2015 overview + latest news - Time marches on and new music is made, but not music containing much that is actually “new”. From my perspective, this is where things have been heading t...
4 months ago
Drumtrip

8205 Recordings 003 – Lopez / Syuss and Reality - Pete from one of our favourite blogs (and part inspiration for Drumtrip itself) blog to the oldskool is now taking orders for his 8205 Recordings label’s...
4 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.

Anti-Semitism: a mea culpa - I must, I fear, express and explain my guilt over all this. I wish I were not guilty, but I know I am. And that guilt is over the fact that, by about 2002 ...
4 months 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...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
History is made at night

Music & Dance at Kelvingrove Art Gallery - Some musical/dance images from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, which I visited this weekend: 'Melody' by Kellock Brown (1894) 'Music' designed by Davi...
6 months ago
...and what will be left of them?

Stoopid bass - and this and this of course
6 months ago
faces on posters too many choices

Crank - bass = discipline two very different tracks, but the bass has the same kind of propulsive quality in each
6 months ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
7 months 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...
7 months 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...
7 months ago
The Night Mail

Impossible Girl: Jamie Stewart as Laura Palmer - *N.B. This post doesn't contain major spoilers for *Twin Peaks* or *Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me*. However, it may not make much sense if you haven’t seen...
7 months 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...
8 months 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...
8 months ago
Soundboy

New Year, new roles - As we start the New Year, I want to share some personal and professional news. I will be moving to a Chairman role and Matt Jones will be CEO. We’ve alwa...
8 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Tracks I Wish I’d Written (issue #5): Black Rain – Another Silent World - “… with desolate, even mournful piano notes, oscillating effortlessly between the robust and the fragile, ‘Another Silent World’ is a streamlined, almost c...
10 months ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

“Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics’ – The Book! - It’s been a long time coming, for which I apologise, but the book of this website is published on the 15th November. Years ago I started this site, initial...
10 months ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

The Seventh Cyrkle - My best wishes of the season, from deep within the sheer terror of Pendle Witch Country. As I sit by the fire this evening and celebrate *Hallowe'en*, I wi...
10 months ago
Mounds and Circles

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

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Rave Archive UK »

Thunder & Joy – The Summer Breeze 1994 - Thunder & Joy – The Summer Breeze 1994 Dj Brockie & Dj Darren Jay – Thunder & Joy – The Summer Breeze 1994 Download Kenny Ken & Dj Magic – Thunder & Joy – ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Boring Old Books

Factory Installation Work - A Practical Work for Electrical Installation Engineers and Contractors, Plant Engineers and Works Electricians. By A. J. Coker Gener...
1 year 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. ...
1 year ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
1 year 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: _____...
1 year ago
davidtoop

Skin and Bone Listening - How to be, where to be, in a space, with sound, with other bodies? For me, in relation to what performance is becoming, this has been the biggest question ...
1 year ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
1 year ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Weekend Otherworld - [image: WOW-web]
1 year ago
marathonpacks

CFP: "Technologies and Recording Industries" (Creative Industries Journal, Fall 2015) - CFP: "Technologies and Recording Industries" (Creative Industries Journal, Fall 2015): At this link is a CFP for a special issue of the *Creative Industri...
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Mutant Technology

Bass Nation show on Purple Radio, 14th May 2014 - Bass Nation show on Purple Radio, 14th May 2014 First show for Purple Radio, somewhat rough round the edges as it’s the first time I’ve done anything quite...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
3 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....
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
5 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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slouching toward babylon

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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The Mire

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holding out for a hero

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its her factory / its her duty

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heroasides

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The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

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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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blissblog

Friday, February 14, 2014

cruel optimism - a video essay

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