«We are to machines as a bee is to a clover, the reproductive organs of a species that is not our own» ( A. Greenspan & S. Livingston) Traversing that gradient of hikikomorization which has been the 2020 pandemic, I found myself thinking about immortality, about the time and the efforts that our species has … Leggi tutto All the young salvagepunks
A beautiful Current 93 bootleg mixtape appeared in my feed earlier today and it is really incredible. I think that Tibet's work lost its occult aura over the years, but this tape manages to re-arrange and deface a portion of his work in such a way that it regains its dark glamour anew. Highly recommended. … Leggi tutto Occult Tapes as the Light Fades
I feel like there is a whole imaginary genre of digital gothic which has become an integral part of how I see my own online activities; a made-up genre, practiced, I believe, by a large number of people, obsessed with the things we leave behind on the Web and their seemingly ghostly nature. An invented … Leggi tutto A Blogpost on Post-Vaporwave in 2020
Edmund Berger wrote an absolutely stellar post on the Doomer question. I was sure that my post-Soviet takes would have been interesting to the weird Marxist blogosphere, but the level of the posts is so stellar that I feel a little out of my depth and I'm sure that I'll, eventually, post some bad take … Leggi tutto Further Notes on the Vanishing Mainstream, vol. 1
Out of the blogosphere comes an involuntary response to my last post on doomer music, the end of the capitalist dreamwork and our collective fascination with the post-Soviet sunken continent. Post-Soviet-in-chief cockydoody has posted an extremely interesting piece on Limonov, aesthetics and the Buttigiegian Gesture. My post is, of course, far more meme-y, techno-euphoric and, … Leggi tutto Further Notes on the Vanishing Mainstream, vol. 0
If you've been around the internet long enough you probably met the doomer. He's a cryptid which is pretty easy to spot on the web, being the subject of quite a bit of memes. He is part of a whole species, the wojaks. The wojaks are a series of characters who function as an expanding … Leggi tutto The Curse of the Silent Houses
I'm reviving and ramping this old post of mine on Sorel, mostly inspired by Vincent Garton's translation of La Chine, his last published article. I think that that article confirms many of the ideas I've had expressed here and it could be a useful addition to this ongoing series of posts. It's a little cringy … Leggi tutto Notes on The Sorelian Crypto-Current
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