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Goodness, this is the first I've heard of this... why isn't the BBC making more of it?

I'm not saying that I've never described hauntology as a project, (even though a google search for 'hauntology' and 'project' only turns up this thread) but I don't recall doing so, and IF I ever did so, it wouldn't be something to which I am committed. I'm happy with the idea that it is a...

O yes, one other thing... Mourning and melancholia Nomadologist above equates the two (I've made the same hasty elision in recent comments too)... but of course Freud distinguishes mourning from melancholia... There's a neat summary of the distinction here: Mourning indicates a psychic...

OK, many interesting things here: First, I'm pleased that Mordant Music have come up. I suspect that people like Gek who are unpersuaded by Ghost Box might be more diverted by Mordant... Mordant are unplaceable... like a dream of dance music, in which elements from different time streams keep...

ha ha, that's what Zizek says.... http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2006/02/zizek_responds_.html 'an admiration of Jung is Deleuze's corpse in the closet'

I'm working on a post - which should be up tomorrow - in which I hope to deal BOTH with this ethereal point AND the reasons why 'hauntology' is the right term - Simon backs away from it in his piece in the Wire, but all his discussion of the 'end of (Pop) history' ends up demonstrating why...

Thanks... We'll see... Gek, I don't see the rave thing with Hot Chip either. To their credit, they don't really sound like anything else. I had no idea they were so popular either; the crowd was very large, and lapped up everything they did. The joy of repetition certainly was in the...

I agree about the poor sound with the JBs... and they did too. They were very disappointed with the show; not because they played badly but because of the atrocious sound and the lack of rapport. My question is: what do sound mixers at live gigs DO? Anyone could hear that the JBs mix was...

I wish it were! This discussion is interesting, but I'd like to add one or two things... The founding event of Ccru was definitely jungle. I read Nick Land's texts at exactly the time that I first heard jungle, and it wasn't a case of 'applying' the former to the latter; there seemed to be an...

The banning of Padraig marks the lowpoint of the board for me... lower even that Luke starting threads based on News of the World gossip, lower even than threads entitled 'what music does your girl like' (whose entirely justified assumptions about the mainly male heterosexual make-up of the...

Yeh, this is literally true... the word 'haunt' literally means 'place' (i.e. my old haunt), that's part of what I was trying to get to in my 'Home is where the Haunt is' post.

Totally. The comparison is near baseless. The Beatles use melodies too... AFX hasn't done anything remotely as consistent as the Burial album, for a start. He's too much of a dilletante to stay focused on a vision for that length of time. And the LP sounds NOTHING like FSOL... FSOL were all...

OK, that's just before my birthday... That's high summer, we should all meet in Brockwell park...

Can't we arrange something for the next one though? Be really good if we met up somewhere before we went... When IS the next one btw? (Paul I looked out for you, didn't know you were there with Marcus....)

OK Well I've listened really carefully to what folk have said on this thread; got hold of some of the tunes people were recommending and I went to DMZ last night. The first thing to say is that, yes, as everyone has argued, dubstep is transformed when played on a massive sound system. The...

It was originally in black and white in Warrior comic.... later colourised when released as a stand-alone comic.

Simple - it's not a dub record!

I think part of the problem here is that it is literally unbelievable. I had to check to see that it wasn't some April Fool's prank... Owen, on reflexive impotence - I think that what makes it true is that it is a self-confirming hyperstitional circuit. 'Doing things' - even if they don't...

yeh, and doesn't the whole hyperstitional is it true or is it false dynamic add a whole other level of fascination?

Ok, will do...