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Thursday, December 20, 2012

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    6 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...
    6 years ago
  • Include Me Out
    Album: Stretchmarks - The Stretch m​-​ARKhives - 'Can you imagine Doobie in your funk?' - George Clinton 'You fake the funk / Your nose got to grow' - Bootsy Collins I like my Funk uncut, but who does...
    6 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...
    7 years ago
  • The Night Mail
    no.7// The Blue Rose: TV as Performance Art - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks* Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* If there’s a true precursor to ...
    7 years ago
  • Southern Discomfort
    Samira Ahmed: Blade Runner meets The Good Life - Broadcasting House. You know the one, near the Church, back of Oxford Circus, Orwell did a stint there. Room … Continue reading →
    7 years ago
  • Southern Discomfort
    Samira Ahmed: Blade Runner meets The Good Life - Broadcasting House. You know the one, near the Church, back of Oxford Circus, Orwell did a stint there. Room … Continue reading →
    7 years ago
  • Fuck Yeah Brutalism
    Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1970(Unknown... - Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1970 (Unknown Architect) FYB is going on indefinite hiatus to rethink and retool. Back soon. In the meanti...
    7 years ago
  • -ɴ●♰ξs ϝᴙ●ლ ♰Ӊξ ṿ◍♏ⅉ✞◍ℾⅉữ♏-
    café in Shoreditch - In a café in Shoreditch the air is peppered with mid-atlantic accents and the croak of privilege. ‘Like, patriarchy yeah, and like, but what about like ...
    7 years 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...
    7 years 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...
    7 years ago
  • The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility
    Everything in Its Place - To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
    7 years ago
  • The Social Life of Secondhand Clothes
    Reviving Revivals - I was paging through the latest Elle magazine, looking at one of the Trends pages, when I spotted a blouse with puffed sleeves. Elaborate blouses with ruff...
    7 years ago
  • io9
    We May Eventually Find Out How the Battle of New York Changed Peter Parker - The Battle of New York at the end of *The Avengers* is a crucial moment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s the moment the whole world changed. And wh...
    7 years ago
  • The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop
    Summer Shuffle – 16 June 2017 -
    7 years ago
  • Between Channels
    Lost Objects - Hullo. What with the pram in the hall being the enemy of buying secondhand magazines, books and records and all that, I don't really do this anymore. Item...
    7 years ago
  • Found Objects
    About The Author # 2. -
    7 years ago
  • dispokino
    Mix: Surreal Synthesizers - If you happen to have 213 minutes to spare please listen to some synthedelic bits, blips and swooshes I carried to Bern and played in a row one night in...
    7 years ago
  • peur bleue
    Benoit B - Weekend Girl - Video by Quentin Brachet Label: Peur Bleue Records Catalogue: PBR007 Release date: November 2016 More info Buy UK Buy FR Buy DE
    7 years ago
  • Speaker to Animals
    Do “Aspies” Dream of Electric Sheep? Part 2: The Neurodivergent Worlds of Philip K Dick - This is the second part of of my essay on Blade Runner (1982) and Asperger’s Syndrome. In ”Part 1: Autistic Noir” I looked at the parallels between Ridley ...
    7 years ago
  • Néojaponisme
    Mix: The Best of Shibuya-kei, Volume One - The time has been right for a new mix that showcases, celebrates, and reintroduces the best tracks from Shibuya-kei’s peak years: dj david, mon amour - “Th...
    7 years ago
  • sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy
    - I met Mark for the first time in a pub, in north London, where there was a panel discussion launching Simon Reynolds's Rip it Up and Start Again. For a fe...
    7 years ago
  • Rouge's Foam
    Negativity, Not Pessimism! (RIP Mark Fisher) - I was so shocked and upset to learn of Mark Fisher's death yesterday. For me, Mark was both an idol and, as time passed, someone I was always pleased and...
    7 years ago
  • Ghosts in the TV
    Photo -
    8 years ago
  • e-flux » Announcements
    Kelley Walker - Direct Drive is the first solo American museum exhibition by acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Kelley Walker. Since the early 2000s, the Georgia-born, New...
    8 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...
    8 years ago
  • Writing Through the Fog
    Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
    8 years ago
  • The Bomb Party
    Izlog Suvremenog Zvuka - In May, I will be speaking at the Showroom of Contemporary Sound festival in Zagreb. For more details check out the event page here.
    8 years ago
  • ...and what will be left of them?
    Stoopid bass - and this and this of course
    8 years ago
  • up close and personal
    Somethin' Here -
    8 years 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
    8 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...
    8 years ago
  • the hauntological society
    mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - *There is nothing to see.* Please go here: http://thehauntologicalsociety.tumblr.com/
    8 years ago
  • Tendenzroman
    Where Are We Now? - So how do us millenials relate to Bowie, and what does he mean to us? Anything more than a two-second gif, a frame for every one of his looks? Born in 19...
    8 years ago
  • I Love 1982
    mabellonghetti: Harrison Ford photographed by Jadran Lazic at... - mabellonghetti: Harrison Ford photographed by Jadran Lazic at the Cannes Film Festival, 1982
    8 years ago
  • English Heretic
    Houses On The Borderland - Last Broadcast At Boleskine - In the conclusion for "Anti-Heroes", I noted, with respect to one of the celebrants, actor George Sanders, "… the archetypes continue to conflate, to l...
    8 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...
    8 years ago
  • The Meccano Grape
    "The military is easily capable of adapting to change, but they don’t like to stop anything they feel..." - ““The military is easily capable of adapting to change, but they don’t like to stop anything they feel is making their lives easier, or is to their benefit...
    9 years 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...
    9 years ago
  • Mounds and Circles
    Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
    9 years ago
  • Island of Terror
    What We Call The Most - 'Look, Mary, no hands!' There's no question in my mind that *Cliff Richard *has made a lot of good records, but very few of them have the immediate dance ...
    9 years ago
  • Ruins of the 20th Century
    Mother Stands For Comfort - I wrote this piece for the epiphanies column of Wire magazine in 2010; it’s included in the Epiphanies anthology, edited by Tony Herrington. In the summer ...
    9 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 ...
    9 years ago
  • toys and techniques
    Music & Poetry of the Kesh - This cassette is included in Ursula Le Guin's novel *Always Coming Home*, which is about a valley people called the Kesh "who might be going to have lived...
    9 years ago
  • la musique de son
    Michael Giles / Jamie Muir / David Cunningham ‎– Ghost Dance ‎– Piano 502 - *"One morning in 1983 I was sent a Japanese music magazine which contained an interview I'd done (I was looking at the pictures) and over the page from...
    9 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. ...
    9 years ago
  • Social Dead Zone
    Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
    9 years ago
  • | Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.
    UC02 Summer 1972 - Open link to Issuu in a new window ______________________________________________________________________ Undercurrents 02 Summer 1972: Contents 1 Front co...
    9 years ago
  • WAVE EDGE
    Michel Redolfi - Immersion/Pacific Tubular Waves - Michel Redolfi - Immersion/Pacific Tubular Waves One of my all time favourite pieces of digital music. All the electronic sounds on this record were g...
    10 years ago
  • 404PageFound
    Pray Before the Head of ‘Bob’ - “The Ultimate Oracle: Over 1625038 Questions Answered.” A great old site that is quirky to boot. Features early HTML, a button map, and ubiquitous tiled ba...
    10 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...
    10 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...
    10 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 ...
    10 years ago
  • Clay Shirky
    Pulling Punches While Covering Print: A Reply to Ryan Chittum - Background: Yesterday, I wrote something about how nostalgia blunted skeptical coverage of Aaron Kushner’s dumb — and now failing — plans to build a newspa...
    10 years ago
  • Ministry Of Kindred Information
    Cats, Death and Creativity - Last month, I was asked to take part in a symposium Art after Death, organised on behalf of the Royal Academy by artist and pal John Lawrence. Held in High...
    10 years ago
  • Mid-Century Modern Freak
    1954 Edris House | Palm Springs, CA Designed by renowned... - 1954* Edris House* | Palm Springs, CA Designed by renowned architect E. Stewart Williams for Marjorie & William Edris. - *Via*
    10 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 ...
    10 years ago
  • entschwindet und vergeht
    The Hatchet - The following is a review of 'Experimental Architecture' by Peter Cook, written by a 'Kit Pedler' and appearing in the April 1971 issue of Architectural De...
    10 years ago
  • Pere Lebrun
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    10 years ago
  • Babylon Wales
    The End - Here endeth the blog. Thanks for your interest - particularly to those of you who have taken the trouble to contact me over the past few years. What bett...
    11 years ago
  • fantastic journal
    Fat. End of. - So, we've announced our end and, surprisingly, hearteningly and for all the right reasons, it feels good. Architectural practices don't normally just stop...
    11 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...
    11 years ago
  • Modern Mechanix
    I WANT MEN! (Nov, 1936) - I WANT MEN! Tea and Coffee Routes Paying up to $60.00 in a Week! ROUTES Going Fast! Hurry before someone else snaps up your locality. Look what others have...
    11 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...
    11 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....
    11 years ago
  • The New Ennui
    Some Music - Here are some records that have been close to me the past 13 months or so. Some of them are old, some were released in 2012. They are in no particular orde...
    11 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...
    11 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...
    11 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...
    12 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...
    12 years ago
  • UNDER TOMORROWS SKY
    UNDER TOMORROWS SKY PROJECT VIDEO BY ODDONE - Production house Oddone have edited together a project video for Under Tomorrows Sky and the MU Foundation. Oddone are also developing a short narrative vi...
    12 years ago
  • It's Complicated Project
    Dear Homeland guy, - judyxberman: Your show is about a brilliant female CIA agent, and you thanked “all the wives.” I know, we’re all kind of disappointed “Mad Men” didn’t wi...
    12 years ago
  • Retro Culture
    Online Ostalgie - The everyday culture of the “Second World”, the countries behind the Iron Curtain in the Soviet dominated sphere forms in its “other modernity” in the rece...
    12 years ago
  • c60 Radio
    c60 609: 06/11/11 - This week’s c60 is bringing you some new tapes for deep summer listening. Here’s the playlist: Pedro Magina – “Miyagi” Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five [No...
    13 years ago
  • You Can't Do That On TV Anymore
    "We're supposed to be intelligent people, not the London School of Economics!" - The first episode of a TV series is incredibly difficult to get right, because it has to do everything. You’ve got to introduce your characters, their env...
    15 years ago
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