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Monday, February 13, 2012

nineties revival happening, apparently
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  • The Night Mail
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  • Rouge's Foam
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  • The Social Life of Secondhand Clothes
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  • io9
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    7 years ago
  • Found Objects
    About The Author # 2. -
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  • Speaker to Animals
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  • peur bleue
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  • Island of Terror
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    Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
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  • Acousmata
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  • Tendenzroman
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  • English Heretic
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  • The Inkbottle
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    8 years ago
  • The Meccano Grape
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  • Mounds and Circles
    Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
    9 years ago
  • Ruins of the 20th Century
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    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 ...
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  • la musique de son
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  • toys and techniques
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  • the spectral dimension
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    9 years ago
  • Social Dead Zone
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  • | Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.
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    10 years ago
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    10 years ago
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    10 years ago
  • Clay Shirky
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    10 years ago
  • Ministry Of Kindred Information
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    10 years ago
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    10 years ago
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    11 years ago
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    11 years ago
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    11 years ago
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    11 years ago
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    12 years ago
  • It's Complicated Project
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    13 years ago
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    13 years ago
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    15 years ago
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