The "Adventures from a mythic shore" area of my website just got a major update (because, whenever I'm a bit ill - and thats what I'm atm -, I use the time to curate my pictures :D).
Nearly 2000 CC-BY-SA low-res photos for you to discover. Now with random function.
We have a dark electronica double whammy this week, with the arrival of Pye Corner Audio's 'The Endless Echo' from Ghost Box, and The Night Monitor's 'Horror of the Hexham Heads' from Library of the Occult.
Nightmares on wax...👀
The Polyend Tracker Mini is a magical little device that’s forcing me to approach music in a different way. Typically it uses very short samples in an almost multisampling context, but here I’ve pushed it to use longer voice samples from my ever-growing library of 70s TV commercial snippets that I’m preparing for my hauntology project.
The ‘Uh huh!’/’Cool clean taste’ bit is from a 1971 Certs commercial, and it’s deliciously mangled using the PT Mini’s granular engine. ‘Purely For Pleasure’, believe it or not, is taken from a 1971 Butterfinger commercial! The laugh you hear was from a CB radio transmission I captured over the holidays. The broken melody is just a Euclidean sequence I used to fill out the bar.
Anyway, it’s a fun little track that is a harbinger of weirder stuff to come. Stay tuned, space cadets!
Sitting with the realization that many now use the phrase "the pandemic" in the same way that the term "capitalism" is bandied about:
As a hauntological signification, naming not an object in the world, with a history and a consequence, but rather gesturing over one's shoulder to the vague vicinity wherein spectres of that which one is unprepared to speak, unequipped to name, are commonly said to have been sighted.
Sitting now with the further realization that "a cold" has always been hauntological:
Referring not to any of hundreds of infectious types, but rather to the unwelcome unease of one's unwilling awareness of an inescapably bodily response to the unseen.
Not a disease but a discomfiture, a preference for absence of awareness of that which is absent from awareness.
Wishing all our fellow Mastodonians a happy Winter Solstice and a very Merry Christmas. The latest blog post, 'New Towns, Mountains and Other Moons', is a whistle stop tour of our favourite words & music from 2023. You can read it, and listen to some musical highlights, here...
Today's music: some classical (Debussy) but mostly I woke up with St. Vincent in my head so I listened to her 2015 album on the commute and later while working. Then segued into Father John Misty. Good times.
Visited new-to-me pokestops and a good gym battle after my afternoon trip to the pharmacy!
Started prep on the #hauntology paper I swore I wasn't going to present on Tuesday and am now quite academically pleased with myself.
Further Report now in...
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, 'Interim Report, March 1979' limited edition re-pressing on white vinyl. Available here.... https://www.logofiasco.com/🦉🎶
"We live in a world marked by the dead...
The #dead don’t walk among us, for there is no need for that.
We walk to them, bearing gifts of flowers.
We are haunted, haunting ourselves with our imaginations and our memories"
@johnshirley2024@philosophy Critical posthumanisms tend to be embedded in critical theory & critiques of transhumanism and technobiopolitics (see Braidotti 2013 for a detailed overview). The analysis presented here addresses the dangers of not taking memes (as vehicles of microfascisms) seriously
A fascinating #BBC compilation of clips from the 1960s onwards. Expect some cool #Music, fascinating traditions, #Swords, #Vikings, #Magic, #Hauntology, #Occultism, and a bit of nudity! Guest starring the #MariLwyd, and what can be best described as a ritual punch-up between two villages.