| Towards a new form of music criticism in a post, post[1] world. http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/the-trouble-with-contemporary-music-criticism I especially liked the critique of List criticism that just gives you a list of retro-historical references. I find myself wanting to do this all the time. "This sounds like that (and they did it better!)" As he says: This type of review says so little it might as well read: #ChewedCorners #Paradinas #chillwave #italodisco #pianohouse #hiphop #hardcore #footwork #UKfunky #house = 7.1/10. http://thefantastichope.blogspot.com/2014/01/further-to-this-debate-about-retromania.html has a dissenting view. [1]Try this. http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/473/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page04.html#post84 Elsewhere in media art, the unprecedented use of the word “post” is unprecedented to the point where culture is so over itself to the point that what remains is a “super-hybrid” mélange of unicorns, kittens, animated GIFs of lactation, and the truckload of memes.   The Trouble with Contemporary Music Criticism | Article | Tiny Mix Tapes »1 Two hundred years before the release of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, people were losing their shit over a different sort of robot entirely. This one was known as the Mechanical Turk, and it was built at the end of the 18th century by a guy named Wolfgang von Kempelen. The Mechanical Turk comprised a puppet dressed in Turkish robes, sitting on top of a box containing an apparently complex set of mechanics. And it played chess. The Turk w... [from: Google+ Posts] |
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