RETROMANIA

"this person's not had enough of useless memories" - John Lydon, possibly misheard

Monday, November 10, 2025

retrochat

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I had a very interesting and jolly chat with Adina Glickstein for the arts magazine  Spike on the subject of nostalgia and retrokultur, tou...
Friday, November 7, 2025

The secret shame of the epigone

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Bevis Frond addresses the Anxiety of Influence in song -  appropriately using the most Oedipus Complex-obsessed, Norman O.Brown-stanning man...
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Monday, October 27, 2025

What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse?

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Just about the most hauntological thing I have ever seen, and it was made in 1962!   This  BBC short film, titled "The Lonely Shore...
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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Overstimulation

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   Wordsworth, from the Prelude to the Lyrical Ballads, written and published in 1800 The Seventeenth Century is barely over and here is Wil...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Hyperstatic Charge

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 Someone asked me what I meant by this term…. "Hyperstasis" is a concept I came up with after listening to a bunch of new electron...
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