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I'm increasingly convinced that as a cultural site, music has lost its relevance. It doesn't feel essential anymore. The meaning of what it communicated--something once self-evident and immediate, something that always acted as an internal guiding principle--has dissipated. Leaving us with an...

something about these triple names isn't there?

Modernists who saw the birth of the city experienced in it a new sense of time that was distinct from what was before. They were able to circumscribe this sense of time as their subject because they had a vantage point outside of it, belonging to some earlier but still real state of things. We...

Do you say that? I don't like cops much, haven't had many pleasant interactions with one. They seem like annoying people, always the flaunting of authority, the needlessly assertive mannerisms. And of course they do horrible things. And if we were to psychologize these people I wouldn't...

Mainly curious about what @thirdform thinks. Personally really enjoyed this new album that came out a few days ago. One of the few current techno producers I pay attention to.

From a certain point of view I think our lives and everything about them is deeply embarassing. There are other points of view, corresponding to other modes of consciousness, where this feeling of embarrassment makes absolutely no sense. But lately I've found myself inhabiting this particular...

Don't think I'll do it but I like to fantasize. Options I've considered include: Algiers, Lisbon, Kathmandu, one of those places in Italy that pays you to move there.

I suspect a fundamental part of how I relate to the world can be traced back to some early childhood instance of misunderstanding something that someone else had apparently understood. Maybe of being exposed of that misapprehension to others and perhaps feeling ridiculed if it was something...

am i the only one who feels it being wrestled from me from every direction? the antennules draw in, the world seals itself off. sooner or later, for the depressed, everything reaches a point of zero interest. the first layer to go, though, is that purest temperament of interest. the interest...

Seeing a movie last night, I thought about the 'thingness' of being a private investigator in 70s L.A. The localization of character within, not what we'd call identity, but something more material, like the webbed matter of constitutive culture. Being a private investigator in 70s L.A. was a...

I used to be self-conscious about being lanky but now that I've grown to normal proporttions the thing I'm most self-conscious about is having a small head on a relatively large body. It's not weirdly small so you would stop and look at it on the street or anything but if I point it out to you...

The image of the future comes served in blue skies with light clouds, streams of sunlight visible through sublte mist drifting through perfect yet temperate green trees. Within these mathematically rendered sketches of line and color there's a melancholy flatness. Is it accidental? Is it...

a) Is it desirable to disregard or annihiliate the concepts of masculinity / femininity altogether? b) Is it possible to do this or can we only subvert, parody etc.? which is to ask are we dependent upon the energy provided by these concepts/ideals to do anything, even to act in opposition to them?

Jon Stewart and his impersonators. This smug, snarky attitude applied from behind an audience of your own cheerleaders. I don't like it. I think it has secured a program for mass sublimation of liberal narcissism. I think it's very unhealthy for everyone involved.

The cultural phenomena involving strategies of reconnecting mind, body and spirit to their 'natural', 'default' or 'primal' states and environments. The epiphanic power of convincing someone that the source of their ills, anxieties, nihilism, stems from the unnaturalness of modern life, the...

This is an attempt to grasp life by the molecular unit: the day. a day, this day. what happened? what did you do? what actions did you perform? doesn't have to be exciting. doesn't have to have a narrative. doesn't have to follow laws of causality. short and neat descriptions. humanize the...

I like driving but I really hate their presence. How every city plan is designed with the central concern of accomodating motor traffic. It's arrogant. Cars are invasive, brutal, noisy. Very few of them are nice looking anymore, they have no trace of human character in the design and a more...

I was watching this teenage fantasy show on Netflix called Locke and Key and there was this one thing in it I thought was very cool. They're in a house with all these magical keys and one of the keys lets you open a door into someone's brain. You walk in and it's a house or a building or a just...

I'm 26 now. People around me are starting to settle down. The standardized smiles and satisfied normality are closing in and I find it all a bit off-putting. The model social expression of the common man living the common life. The disinterested contentment of a self-assured place in the...

by Michel de Certeau. I think this book would resonate with some of you. Has anyone read it? I can't describe it that well, but it's about how in the act of consumption is a hidden process of production, through which the consumer is able to create his own autonomous space. So the consumer is...