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In Praise of Shadows: Ancient Japanese Aesthetics and Why Every Technology Is a Technology of Thought
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
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A two-way medium: Radio Benjamin editor Lecia Rosenthal speaks to Kester John Richardson-Dawes
In an exclusive interview, Lecia Rosenthal speaks to Kester John Richardson-Dawes about editing Radio Benjamin, the first volume to focus comprehensively on Benjamin’s works for radio with many pieces translated into English for the first time. They also discuss Benjamin's critical pedagogy and financial precarity, the auditory aura and questions of citation and obscurity, and what the digital archive has done to our experience of forgetting, loss, and the severing of text from context.
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Arca - Vanity (Official Video)
“VANITY” taken from the new album MUTANT, OUT 20 NOVEMBER 2015. to softness as a weapon when the mind attacks itself
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Arca - Xen (Official Video)
Video by Jesse Kanda
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Arca: Mutant review – digital shape-shifting
The former Björk collaborator is by turns chilling and sexual on his second album.
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Artist Spotlight: IGLOOGHOST
It seems like we’ve been screaming about IGLOOGHOST for a good bit now, but until the kid hits a milli on every platform we’re just gonna keep screamin’. I first came across iggy through his Activia Benz released “Inca Cheekbones” single, and my eyes almost popped out my head when the track’s initial wall-of-bass hit my ears.
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The Caretaker's An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
The Caretaker conjures a quieter, more introspective spirit, lost in his own mind amidst a low-lit labyrinth of ever-decaying and antediluvian shellac phrases. Sourced from a mysterious collection of 78s, these vague snippets of archaic sonics reflect the ability of Alzheimers patients to recall the songs of their past, and with them recollections of places, people, moods and sensations.
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Sensory experiences of digital photo-sharing - ‘‘mundane frictions’’ and emerging learning strategies
This article will specifically scrutinise how mobile phone cameras, digital photographing and the use of web-based photo-sharing sites and communities become part of the meaning-making practices through which the everyday is lived and understood. In doing so, I advance the concept of “mundane friction” through which to discuss the experience, meaning-making and pedagogy generated through operating screen-based technologies.
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Why Vaporwave Is Obsessed with Asia: High-Tech Orientalism From The Depths Of The Internet Underground
We know we can't go back. There was never an Eden—an “authentic” pastoral past that, if we could just rediscover, would save us from our increasingly real alienation. This is why indie is dead. As Ezra Konig put it, “People would rather have genuine fakes than fake genuines.”
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The Labor of Sound in a World of Debt
Now, even less than in decades and centuries past, it cannot be denied that sound and music are deeply embedded in economic and material networks of exponentially increasing complexity. Sound and music are not abstract concerns, floating free from a politically charged context of labor, power and society, and neither are the messages and joys they bring. It is dependent on, determined by, and reflective of the work that made it and the world into which it is born.
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L.A.-based artist Alexa Meade’s 2D paintings reverse the Trompe L’oeil traditional technique
L.A.-based artist Alexa Meade takes the tradition of Trompe L’oeil — the Renaissance painting technique in which objects appear real — and reverses the process, turning the human body into seemingly two-dimensional tableaus and incredible portraits.
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Black Death
How Africa Became Heavy Metal’s New Frontier
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The Propaganda of Pantone
Colour and Subcultural Sublimation
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The Surprising Musical Preferences of an Amazon Tribe
Scientists have claimed that humans have an innate, universal preference for some chords over others—but a study of remote villagers suggests otherwise. By Ed Yong.
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There’s a Mathematical Equation That Proves I’m Ugly — Or So I Learned in My Seventh Grade Art Class
It took me years to realize that despite being born with a rare facial disfigurement, beauty is more than a cold calculation. By Ariel Henley.
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The secret of taste: why we like what we like
How does a song we dislike at first hearing become a favourite? And when we try to look different, how come we end up looking like everyone else? By Tom Vanderbilt.
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JESSAUDREY MIX
Premiered live 10/23/2015 on TINYCHAT.COM/THISISNOAHB
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Arca - Reverie
Taken from the new album Arca, out April 7 on XL Recordings. Conceived by Jesse Kanda and Alejandro Ghersi
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The Venice Biennale: An Orphanage for the Terminally Out-of-Touch
All of which is to say, the art professional who believes artists are magical unicorns who will save us all is looking increasingly silly. And so, visiting this year’s Venice Biennale Viva Art Viva curated by Christine Macon, which begins with the premise that artists will shape the world to come, felt a bit like walking through a United Way commercial.
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The Venice Biennale and documenta Curators Both Put Their Lovers in Their Shows
The world's two most important shows include the curators' partners, raising questions about the close ties between artists and curators.
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