RETROMANIA

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

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...
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...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Anti-Retro (Foucault else to do)

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Historians of retro concur that the first time "retro" was used in its current way was in France in the early '70s, with the p...
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