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A Shiver in the Archives

Poetic Elves in the 1920s - I was discussing "twee" with a friend and remembered a nifty poem I read about thirty-five years ago. Of course I had to go find it, and it's as good as...
3 hours ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

A SF “bande dessinée” Review: Enki Bilal’s La Foire aux immortels (trans. The Carnival of Immortals) (1980), vol. 1 of The Nikopol Trilogy (1980-2005) - Collated Rating: 4/5 (Good) Art: 5/5 (Masterpiece) + Story: 3/5 (Average) Enki Bilal’s La Foire aux immortels (trans. The Carnival of Immortals) (1980) is ...
4 hours ago
Hate Meditations

On Spotify Part II – nails, coffins, and art on the battlefield - Earlier this year I shared my thoughts on Spotify’s “Loud and Clear” mission statement. Spotify operates an unjust business model for artists and their att...
9 hours ago
xenogothic

Untitled #38 -
10 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

Covers # 186 Richard Cheese - Cool, finger clicking Lounge Jazz take on probably the most overblown Rock song ever.
10 hours ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

Peggy Eddy, 1931-2021 - Fifty years ago this past September 22, Margaret Mae Eddy (né Richmond né Griffith) adopted me and my four siblings, aged 4 to 11 at the time. She would ha...
1 day ago
Tribune

As Climate Crisis Hits, Migrant Justice Is More Important Than Ever - Last week we saw the worst loss of life in the channel since records began. At least 27 people, with hopes and dreams, families and futures, died in a co...
1 day ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

The Hard Sell: Pin-Ups 1972 - ‘This intensely researched, vividly detailed book plunges you into the electric moment of 1972 – as year as revolutionary in rock history as 1967 or 197...
1 day ago
For Your Pleasure

(No Pussyfooting) - (No Pussyfooting), Fripp & Eno, 1973 ‘The Heavenly Music Corporation’Recorded at Eno’s Studio September, 1972 ‘Swastika Girls’Recorded at Command Studios A...
1 day ago
Real Life

License to Ill - Havana syndrome resembles many other "contested illnesses," only its sufferers — and promoters — are professional disinformation producers
2 days ago
Blue Labyrinths

Georges Bataille and the Continuity of Life - What is life? To the historian, writer, and occultist George Bataille, life is a ‘door into existence’ revealing to us Continue reading →
3 days ago
thebluemoment.com

The blues came down from Richmond - Around the corner from where I live is an apartment that was once a crash-pad for Paul Simon, Jackson C. Frank and John Martyn. If I carry on to the train ...
4 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

Richard H Kirk 1956-2021 - I've only become aware of Kirk's death in the last week as I'm no longer following media or going online on a regular basis to protect my mental health. ...
4 days ago
Ace Linguist

Blog Update - November 29 - Another month gone by for Ace Linguist! Here's a little blog update of what's been going on. I've been quite busy with school this semester, believe it ...
5 days ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Horror Express: Night Visitor (Rupert Hitzog, 1989) - It is the 1980s, in anonymous American suburbia. Generic off-brand hair metal blasts from the radios of shiny new convertibles, as obnoxious, sub-Michael ...
6 days ago
The Pirate Archive

Passion FM – Bristol - Passion FM first appeared on 106.2FM across Bristol at the end of 1994. At first it catered greatly for Jungle, as well as Reggae and Soul. Over the firs...
6 days ago
Jason Phereus,

Full circles. - This statement on Zero/Repeater/Zero from Tariq also provides some interesting insight into the early stages of Zero getting off the ground as well.
1 week ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

Tina reads “St Elsewhere” by Masoud Golsorkhi - Tina reads “St Elsewhere” by Masoud Golsorkhi At the height of the golden age of globalisation, the thing that seemed to unite all mankind was the desi...
1 week ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Real Life Rock Top 10 (11/21) - November 2021 instalment of Real Life Rock Top 10, available at Los Angeles Review of Books.
1 week ago
History is made at night

British Hip Hop Championships 1985 - Flyer for first 'National Hip Hop Championships' at the Rok Rok Club at Brixton Recreation Centre, 'the freshest most awesome place to be'. Two heats a...
1 week ago
davidtoop

Spheric resonances / eggflutes - Last September, when social contact was still a desert landscape, Ecka Mordecai cycled to my home to present me with a gift of eggflutes. To describe them ...
1 week ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2021 ➤ So what’s the Bowie premium as Judi’s Ashes hat goes for sale? - ❚ A FAMOUS OWNER can certainly bestow prestige on a work of art. Indeed when Bowie’s own contemporary art collection went for auction at Sotheby’s in 2016 ...
1 week ago
Trevor Barre

A Retreat into some earlier jazz masters (Hodges/Marmarosa) - I’m pleased to report that I have regained my reading mojo, after somewhat losing same throughout 2020 (henceforth known as the Great Lockdown syndrome?)...
1 week ago
joy of speed

Circuit des Yeux - Dogma -
1 week ago
Modernism Unbound

Autechre: Formal Technological Experimentation - Jon Lindblom disusses the importance of technology in the music of Autechre, as well as its broader cultural significance. When thinking of the most intere...
1 week ago
A Year In The Country

Espers’ “Dead Queen” from II: Songs for A Year In The Country 24/26 - Released in 2006 this song still sounds decidedly contemporary while also being part of a lineage of reimaginings of folk that can be traced back to 1960s...
1 week ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Abel Ferrara, ZEROS AND ONES (2021) - I initially posted this on Facebook, but I thought it would be good to present an expanded version here. I just watched Abel Ferrara’s new movie, ZEROS AND...
1 week ago
Wyrd Britain

War Games With Caroline - [image: Wyrd Britain reviews War Games With Caroline from Dramarama Spooky.] The inaugural series of the long running kids drama show Dramarama revolved a...
1 week ago
Blackadelic Pop

- Acclaimed writer Jeffery Renard Allen (Rails Under My Back, Song of the Shank) has launched a new online literary magazine called TaintTaintTaint https://...
2 weeks ago
The Interregnum Navigation Bureau

Rittenhouse Rock - I note in passing the death of Mick Rock and the not guilty verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, and point you to the factor that unites them, which i...
2 weeks ago
it's her factory

Vibes and algorithms, or “vibe check” as biopolitics - I’m working on the part of my “Good Vibes Only” book where I distinguish what I’m calling “a biopolitics of frequency” – the kind of biopolitics Foucault t...
2 weeks ago
Suspended Reason

On the vibe shift, pt 1: Worldbuilding - Chatting with a friend last week, I mentioned I was writing a party report on the Lisbon Ethereum conference for Spike. He mention he was surprised, that t...
2 weeks ago
We Are the Mutants

The Lonely, Horny Prophecies of Lynne Tillman’s ‘Weird Fucks’ - By *Sam Moore* What’s prescient about *Weird Fucks* is how everything both is and isn’t a matter of life and death; violence is an undercurrent, and every ...
2 weeks ago
The Pink Temple

- Maximum Joy Surn orver crest kill the curdled abortion that one was a mistake. Brighter now and happier cabbie waves cap outside the window wound-down Alri...
2 weeks ago
WOEBOT

Unsound Talk -
2 weeks ago
streams of expression

Ligeti in November - As Ligeti’s *Horn Trio* ends, its principal motif seems to erase itself in front of our ears, disappearing into the void by a process of s...
3 weeks ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Protected: Hardt and Negri’s Optimism and Subjectivity - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
3 weeks ago
Pop Theory

Books I Didn’t Read During Lockdown: III - But we all should…
4 weeks ago
Ericland

Hey Hey They're The Monkees! - The Monkees TV show was first shown in England in September 1966. I was twelve at the time so it was ok to like it. I was instantly a fan. ...
4 weeks ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

CONRAD SCHNITZLER - 1989/6 (89/6 A-B electric minis 14.7.-9.8.89) (WAV) - *DOWNLOAD*
5 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • October 29, 2021 -
5 weeks ago
New Critique

[Poetry] — DS Maolalai - "a bird lands a moment/on the windowsill./makes footprints in thick/ fallen light."
5 weeks ago
Lost Turntable

New Wave from Z to B - Thanks to everyone for the kind words after the last post, that was very nice. My plans to eventually shutter this blog in its current form remain, but it ...
1 month ago
Airport Through The Trees

In lieu of Twitter part ghzd/fkjw - A doctor refusing to treat a patient who is unvaccinated and a police office shooting someone who is unarmed are doing the same thing.
1 month ago
History's Dumpster

The Great Kat - Worship Me Or Die! (Roadrunner, 1987) - Your blind date is here. Image: Discogs I once saw a mail-order offer for this album in *Metal Edge* magazine back in 1988. The cover of this made me do...
1 month ago
It's Full of Stars

Syntraits -
1 month ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Songs for a life we left behind (w/ Brock Van Wey) – Part III - “… because it’s always a new experience, always a new fear of putting yourself out there to that extent, and always a new high and level of love when even ...
2 months ago
Sounding Out!

“Let’s check in with Marabel May”: Audience Positioning, Nostalgia, and Format in Amanda Lund’s The Complete Woman? Podcast Series - In honor of International Podcast Day on 30 September, Sounding Out! brings you Pod-Tember (and Pod-Tober too, actually, now that we’re bi-weekly) a series...
2 months ago
Municipal Dreams

London Housing by Peter Moro and Partners - I’m pleased to feature today a new guest post by Dr Alistair Fair. Alistair is a Reader in Architectural History … Continue reading →
2 months ago
on the ones

Břetislav Pojar and Miroslav Štěpánek #2: The largely Štěpánek-directed “Hey Mister, Let’s Play!” entries (1966-67) - Watch the films discussed in this article with English subtitles by viewing them on YouTube here! …or, download copies for personal viewing here! When we l...
2 months ago
Found Objects

Weirdness in Mainstream Pop pt 1 (re-post) - 'Those Were The Days', Mary Hopkins, 1969 Original post was lost in the Great Deletion. No idea what I said back then, probably not much, but THE ...
2 months ago
/ \

Loving the Vampire: The Contradictions of Eroticism - In my writing on horror so far, I have, probably unavoidably, left a succession of terms and concepts by the wayside. When I first wrote something on the s...
2 months ago
Cut and Run

Coupling Musical Noise -
3 months ago
Nina Power

Life and Humanity in Covid Times with Reference to Ivan Illich and Giorgio Agamben - [This piece accompanies an earlier text, ‘The Politics of Care: Rethinking Collective Being in the Wake of COVID-19’. Both texts were written for my friend...
3 months ago
Aloysius

review of Neon Screams - [image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Maelstrom-Clarke.jpg] Virgil Thomson said that the purpose of music criticism is “to aid ...
3 months ago
The Work Trials

The Podcast! - Okay, so I haven't logged in for ages but just noticed we seem to have been quietly amassing a fair few views over the past few months. I'm not doing the...
3 months ago
BLDGBLOG

Looming Matter With Light - “When light collides with other light, it can transform into particles of matter,” science writer Corey S. Powell posted on Twitter the other day. He was r...
3 months ago
blog to the oldskool

Macka B – Salute - Been ages! Here’s a track I bought blind and ripped / sent to a few friends, while searching for random ragga jungle obscurities which I’d never heard mana...
4 months ago
underscore__

Loving Folk (Part III) - *Part III: Proletarian Love* Truth is not an unveiling which destroys the secret, but the revelation which does it justice. —Walter Benjamin At the ri...
5 months ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

One Eye Gone Black - [image: https://hips.hearstapps.com/amv-prod-alt.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ATA063020keaton_img01.jpg?crop=1xw:0.6666666666666666xh;cente...
5 months ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

Solargoth - I keep telling myself I shouldn’t pass public comment on solarpunk, firstly because I haven’t done the reading and legwork, and secondly because I know a f...
5 months ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

A magical substance flows into me / Jumana Manna (2015)from the... - *A magical substance flows into me* / Jumana Manna (2015) from the latest Another Screen free streaming programme by Another Gaze journ...
5 months ago
Portals of London

Sky-borne lights: The South Dulwich Woods Beacon - Allotment owners are well-known guardians of city space. They have good reason to be protective. Land given over to thisContinue Reading
6 months ago
Datacide

Nomex: A Life in Full Frequency - When selecting an alias for his artistic persona, Paul Kidd chose the name of the flame resistant material, Nomex. A protective shield suggesting indestr...
6 months ago
8Sided Blog

Equal Parts Confusion and Admiration - [image: From the Notebook - 2021may17] Tyler Mahan Coe has finally launched the long-awaited second season of his podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones. If you’re...
6 months ago
lunarlodge

Play Recent X Repeater Radio - I’m thrilled to announce that Play Recent, my Cult Montreal column, will now be a monthly radio show as well, on Repeater’s new broadcasting arm. Listen to...
6 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Dark Matter - *Some notes on **Jake Fior’s new novel,* Through a Looking Glass Darkly* (2020)*. In 2011 rare book dealer Jake Fior made a startling discovery. He ca...
7 months ago
64 Quartets

6. The Bangles - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAY LIST Late August 1989: Susanna Hoffs sits in a hotel room in Kansas City, doing a phone interview. Her band, which got a #1 hit ea...
8 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

a Hudson Valley tourist town faces the pandemic: the second Rhinebeck small business survey - For a second time, I was asked to analyze the data from an online questionnaire distributed to small businesses in Rhinebeck, New York. Created by the loca...
9 months ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

Some news at the beginning of 2021 - We hope you’re all well and managing the current situation with the help of good music! Apologies if you receive any advertisements in this post – they are...
9 months ago
The Generalist

TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI - Just heard that Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. One of the greatest of the Beat poets, creator and custodian of the City Lights boo...
9 months ago
East of Borneo

Portraying Political Ideology and Hippiedom in 1968 Los Angeles: I love you, Alice B. Toklas - By 1968, the movie I love you, Alice B. Toklas (ILYABT), co-written by the ingenious Paul Mazursky, would singularly aim to define the hippie movement alon...
10 months ago
music, etc

Books I read in 2020 - [image: image] More than usual, especially between March and September. So there! Isabel Allende, *The House of the Spirits* Nicholson Baker, *The Mezza...
11 months ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

No One Man Should Do All These Lists: 10 Year Vintage best of 2010 - * 40 Long-Form Streams, Music Blog RARs, or Album-format Releases* *1. Various - Bang and Works Volume 1* *2. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Tod...
11 months ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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11 months ago
(SF) 365

Chess Dreams - 'Let's play'Beth Harmon is a chess player, one of the greatest ever to have lived. She is doubly orphaned', losing two mothers; she is addicted to tranqu...
1 year ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Big John Little John - [image: Big John Little John (NBC, 1976)] *Big John Little John*, a 1976 American body-swap sitcom about a middle-aged man who stumbled across the Fount...
1 year ago
Olympic Mess

Reducing the Input: Gaddis and Beckett - Recently read Beckett’s Molloy and, after reading something of Marshall McLuhan’s son, Eric’s, on the role of art in human survival, can’t help but think o...
1 year ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
1 year ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Separated at (still)birth #1 -
1 year ago
Rave Archive UK »

Yaman Studio Mixes ‘Bailey & Bukem’ - ‘LTJ Bukem – Techno 01 – Yaman Studio Mix – 1991’ Download/Play ‘DJ Bailey – Techno 02 – Yaman Studio Mix – 1992’ Download/Play LTJ Bukem – Hardcore Vol 1 ...
1 year 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 year 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 year 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...
1 year 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 year ago
The New Vulgate

Issue #157 (April 20, 2020) - *Carillon along the DuPage River, Naperville, Ill.* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ...
1 year 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 year 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 year ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
1 year ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
1 year ago
Prole Sector

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

- 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. ...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
2 years ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
3 years ago
Dream Transmissions

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

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
3 years 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...
3 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.
3 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...
3 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 [...]
3 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
3 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
3 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...
3 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 →
3 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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 ...
4 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 ...
4 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
4 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 ...
5 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: ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
5 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
5 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
5 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...
5 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
6 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...
6 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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. ...
6 years ago
Social Dead Zone

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

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 years ago
Rouge's Foam

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7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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....
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 years ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

The King of Stamford Hill - The King of Stamford Hill. If you do what I do—play out of tune, stretch time signatures, make noise—people assume you’re an idiot. Because no one would wa...
9 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...
10 years ago
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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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The Mire

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

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