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  • the feared disseminators of complexity

    A new discovery, made within Simon Reynolds’ response to the shuttering of Beyond the Beyond: Matti Swiedmann’s Red Velvet Corridor. Top of the stack of posts at present is this thing, rambling around in Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces, Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, Baudrillard… all the intervals in that haunting earworm of a scale that…

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  • dead media beat

    Thanks to Jay Springett and Uncle Warren for alerting me to the sunsetting of Bruce Sterling’s old Beyond the Beyond blog at Wired, which I only stopped following because Wired yanked the RSS on it some time ago—this despite its being perhaps the most influential thing they ever published, or ever will publish. Jay’s accompanying…

  • canned applause

    Pandemic humour, Polish style, via a UK colleague whose roots are in that country: Translation: “Doctors are clapping disease out of the patient. Firefighters are clapping the fire out of the forest. The teacher is clapping knowledge into pupils.” For all its ongoing troubles, Poland is apparently still a country capable of recognising performative bullshit…

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