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oh c'mon you cannot listen to "Blood on the Leaves" without feeling something.

This is why I find your disdain for the prose of Don Dellilo so hard to comprehend. Those sentences could've been ripped from one of his novels. Not just the style but the mode of perception, ie abstracting transient experience into something with greater, maybe sublime or cosmic, significance.

You know, I wasn't aware of this relationship so I did some searching and good lawd Elon needs to pick one: engaging with the media/public, or cannabis consumption. The combination just isn't working out for the man: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-lawsuit-elon-musk-grimes-azealia-banks/...

I don't know. That many people tripping simultaneously on mushrooms might create some kind of indestructible hive mind. I just envision everyone falling into a collective trance, humming at some weird insect/alien frequency, and being welcomed into like a benevolent galactic ecosystem of...

Funny you should say that since that idea was spawned from a game I like to play called the Bond Supervillain Game. The object of the game is to come up with apocalyptic or near apocalyptic scenarios (which seem... er.... plausible enough) that CANNOT BE TRACED TO A SOURCE. Another idea: a fake...

Okay so it went Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990), Alien Versus Predator or AVP (2004), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem or AVPR (2007), Predators (2010) and The Predator (2018). Then you have Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), Alien: Resurrection (1997), the aforementioned AVP...

I wish this album was easier to find:

You know this thought has crept into my head from time to time over the past couple years: What if a landlocked bad actor in the East (China, Russia, N Korea if we have a falling out) dropped nukes on the blue ice in Greenland when it is exposed in the Summer? Wouldn't this trigger a cascading...

Someone had to do it, so it might as well be me. What does Dissensus think of Billie? I'm dying to know. Personally, I hope she's a sign of a post-millennial paradigm shift in pop music from breezy sentimentality and pseudo-sincerity to perverse horror-psychedelia hypno-pop. I hope this...

Noticed some Autechre love in this thread and let me throw a few more in: Confield (a generative algorithm MASTERPIECE), ep7 (not really an EP), and Quaristice. All great, start to finish. Musically and, er, let's say visually.

Could you elaborate on this? What exactly is it about the album form that dooms it to failure, and what is this intrinsic property that prevents it from sustaining a mood/narrative/perception? I agree with your premise but only because I don't think any form of entertainment has any "value" to...

You were too stoned on drugs to remember. It's cool. All is forgiven. lol But seriously I want to read Josef K's published/public work or whatever.

Bohemian Rhapsody - it felt so superficial, like they took the Wikipedia pages for Queen and Freddy Mercury and went paragraph by paragraph, and made a scene out of each without putting an ounce of thought into how any of this played out in real life. It's an underdog story with little or no...

Does the DJ control anything other than the sequence of songs written by someone else? Isn't it the music, specifically reverberation, shaking walls, drugs/alcohol, and the social scene that controls how people feel, move, behave, etc. A fascist leader focuses group affect, usually repressed...

I thought both adaptations were shit, and I'm a fan of his work generally. Maps to the Stars, which was either adapted from a Bruce Wagner novel or scripted by him, was hugely disappointing given the perfect ingredients (great cast, great director, great writer, etc.) All it did was make me feel...

Page 2 of this thread http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=8587 is when it started. Then came the hordes. Of trolls.

ugh I remember when those three, specifically those three people, trolled the shit out of me 10 years ago, on this forum, for calling Nick Land a fascist wank. I guess the conspiracy was afoot even then. If someone could direct me to their published writings I would be so extremely grateful...

The problem, if it is a problem, is that teenage idiot energy migrated from music (specifically punk and metal) to violent multiplayer gaming, idiot online trolling, and you could argue mass shootings, spree killings, etc. Energy and power is always mutating, migrating, and changing forms. When...

Having a good smeck at two pop intellectual bestsellers from the oughts: Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold and Everything Bad is Good for Youby Steven Johnson. The naive faith in collective intelligence as a solution to political issues, or as a driver of cultural evolution, is just laughable in...

Notoriously un-hip when it comes to music but I'll give it a shot: Indie Rock/Pop Album: Suuns - Felt Song: Voidz - Qurryus Rap Album: Future/Juice WRLD - WRLD on Drugs Song: Quavo - Workin' Me Pop Album: Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer Song: Billie Eilish - you should see me in a crown I...