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  1. itd be pretty cool if there was one of those "edm production hacks" videos but it secretly just tricked people into making the brown note. "Hey guys, comin' atcha today with a little production trick that's going to absolutely make you lose your shit"
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    i'm definitely enjoying it more now that he's getting into the real speculative territory. His timeline for 21st century tech development felt fairly level-headed, but as with most things of this nature the timing feels way off in some regards (like a lot of what he's predicted regarding AI & 3d printing feels pretty on track, but he also predicted that by 2020 all-purpose helper robots would be a common feature in every household). the stuff that looks further into the distance is more interesting to me - when he starts talking about post-biological cyborg organism colonizing deep space & undergoing their own evolutionary process. the one part where he seems to have been pretty far off the mark is wrt legislation & resource distribution. The picture he paints of the (then upcoming) 21th century is one in which corporations are kept in check by national governments, and the world peacefully moves to a kind of fully automated luxury communism. Seems he completely ignores the possibility of environmental catastrophe or resource depletion hampering the process, or of the 1990s neolibeal global village falling into ideological decay. At one point he even (quite literally) describes neofeudalism, only to immediately dismiss it with "that's clearly the absolute worst case scenario, and probably won't happen". I am open to the possibility that the rest of the century will actually balance out & things like UBI/effective environmentalism will be implemented, but at present that really doesn't seem to be the direction things are going There's also the deeper philosophical question i get when reading material like this - should we be moving to a society based entirely around luxury & comfort? I'm not sure if I'm totally onboard with the idea of humans being able to freely control the weather, take pills to be fit, download extra intelligence etc etc. I'm not saying I'm neccessarily against these things either, just that my inner luddite comes out whenever I encounter techies promoting WALL-E futurism as the ultimate goal of humanity
  3. i'm not sure which is more embarasing: A. renaming things traditionally associated with women so they sound more "manly" (meggings, manbags, bromances, manbuns etc) B. when politicians use completely made up nonsensical terms to demonstrate gender equality (that politician who said "amen & a-woman" earlier this year, Justin Trudeau recently saying that Canada requires an economic "she-covery")
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    been wanting to read this one specifically, thanks for the reminder i hear logic of sense by Deleuze establishes a lot of important ideas. Some say it's on par with dif/rep I also have a big stack of the works of Reich in paperback i wanna get started on soon. He was a clear influence on Anti-Oedipus, and imo a lot of his ideas are fairly interesting (if at times kinda outdated feeling). Freud as well is someone i wanna spend some more time on, have only read a couple of his works
  5. this track has kinda similar energy to stars 6 7 8 9 by the orb as well I downloaded a bunch of the Bruton library music collections earlier this year for sampling purposes. they definitely have a similar sonic character to r+7 but musically i didn't find most of them that engaging
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    robot - hans moravec: this is like some kinda techno-utopian piece from 1999 by a science guy. first chapter is kinda dry as he's giving the history of robotics, but the rest looks more interesting. seems like he's going to open up into a more speculative analysis of AI development into a galactic cloud consciousness. getting some leroi-gourhan vibes Methodology of Possession - James Ellis: @drillkicker you might like this one. dude recounts his experience of becoming disillusioned with his continental philosophy degree, encountering the work of NIck Land, and deciding to engage in home brew magic rituals that read kind of like a trip report. Halfway through, seems to be slowly moving from more literary to more theoretical territory I've got like 100 pdfs I downloaded this summer I wanna start reading. I think the next one will be another book by Kondylis which seems to be a historical analysis of the emergence of Conservatism as a political ideology
  7. tempted to start a Deleuzean techno (DeleuzEDM) thread where we just mash parts from random tracks together like john carpenter's the thing. actually this sounds like it could be a lotta fun @Alcofribas i feel like we're in this weird transtional stage vis a vis subjectivity. like the recognition of a coherent subject (in this case a musical genre) is always a conscious decision to frame raw experience in a particular way, to place an an abstract atemporal frame of definition onto the endlessly-mutating temporal flow of life. the exact definition of the subject is always something that is worked out moment-by-moment, case-by-case etc, as one is continuously called to determine what "fits" within the confines of the subject, even though the subject is still in the process of being defined - the very process of determining what does & does not "fit" is the process of developing a definition of something. the subject endures as a metastable abstraction - it's meaning constantly shifting over time, but slowly enough that it maintains a sense of relative coherence (much like how the faces of people you know are constantly changing, but usually not fast enough to trip you up) The thing about internet culture is that the fluctuation happens much faster now. We're still used to a 20th century mode of thinking, when things were still measured in decades & generations. And yet, at the same time we seem unable to resist the movement towards increasingly short attention spans, increasingly ambiguous signifiers, arbitrary categorizations, definitions that change sometimes hour to hour. Ultimately i think the very notion of things like genres will need to be updated to reflect this, to become something that more explicitly speaks to a flow of cultural transformation rather than any (semi-)fixed point
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    what the world needs rn is a few talibangers
  9. thanks guys! if you like this one, the two albums that came before it (my life as a series of drones // the spore cloud) are fairly similar, whereas the one that came after (music to play while watching pornography) is very much in the weirder end of things (i was doing lots of vyvanse & feeling paranoid about the end of the world). been doing a lot of more experimental stuff lately without trying to produce songs proper. i think when i move out east this fall i'm just gonna lock myself up for a few months & do music proper (this loop is from earlier this week) 1226379395_primitivelectronicmusic.mp3
  10. Burny Sandesert sounds like a man who would know a few things about global warming but seriously folks we're full-on "that guy that got turned into water in the first x-men movie" out here, couch is fucked, these may be the end times
  11. if i end up working in a chinese glass shard sorting factory factory eventually i'm going to think of this thread every day
  12. sadness gets in the way of the material production/consumption process, and increasingly that is the only point of reference (in the east & the west)
  13. kinda into this idea tbh. my understanding is that people's digestive systems usually respond better to the foods that naturally grow in their area (maybe this applies mainly to people whose anscestors have been living in the same area for many hundreds of years, but at the very least things like local honey offer better protection against local allergins etc). and really a person shouldn't just have free access to every kind of food imaginable. you should be given access to a small variety of foods based on your location (enough to still cover basic nutrition requirements obv). this would force people to get more creative with their cooking, and add a sense of mystery to the culinary experience. There would be this sense that there was an entire world of other foods out there that you would only ever hear vague rumours about. maybe on very rare occasion you would actually get to try one (like how people used to get oranges for christmas). fusion restaurants are a crime against humanity
  14. it's 31 degrees celsius out that means it's time to grow facial hair
  15. it's so weird but at the same time not weird at all that this has ended up being one of the longer enduring pieces of internet media. 1998! that's like the internet equivalent of when you hear about some building which has consistently been a tavern since 600AD, or something like that
  16. "well yeh, I jus think, uh, some of the weatha patterns have honestly been quite mental lately, absolutely lush watchin the smoke comin up from the woods by my house" Squarepusher's aunt Doris: C'MON YOU CLOUDS, LET'S HAVE SOME APHEX ACID RAIN
  17. that live action winnie the pooh movie from a few years back, except that in this case the imaginary childhood friend that returns to haunt Ewan McGregor's character would be an electric hedgehog pokemon, and the movie would be called Christopher Weston
  18. lol #VaxtoVote trending on twitter rn. i do hope the people pushing this angle realize that the far more likely outcome of that would be the emergence of a number of American tearaway states & probably civil war eventually, rather than antivaxxers going "huh jeez well i better go get my jab, i wanna be able to vote for the lesser of two evils in three years"
  19. the allegory of the man cave suggests that the sports memrobilia, unused exercise equipment, crude sexual humour, various pop cultural symbols of rugged masculinity etc with which u surround yourself form a sort of shadow world. the mancave is a simulacra display of virility that never truly extends itself out into unexplored terrain. the man cave is the realm of the demiurge, the blind idiot god who rules over the earth with cruel saturnian (but ultimately impotent) instinct. he is fully contained within the womb of the goddess that is material reality, much like your mancave is contained within a house otherwise conforming to your wife's aesthetic's sensibilities, and is only allowed to endure according to her whim (and thus it is never more than an empty/falsified expression of masculine assertiveness). the gnostics say that there is some ultimate ground of reality beyond all this, beyond the world of the demiurge or even the universal goddess. perhaps it is this that you see reflected in your stack of dumbbells collecting dust in the corner since march 2017. a faint whisper, a promise. a dream of truly gettin turnt up with the boys one more time, wifey b damned
  20. mention the words "music theory" around the wrong person and they'll be like "yeah thanks bro but i'm not into that robot shit gnah mean? i just like to feel bro, one love man, keep it real" before playing some echoy notes on their microkorg & singing about how weed is alive
  21. you should ask her what jared's up to these days
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