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“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.”--Georges Bataille
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old woman yells at cloud: cataloging a YA novel that describes one of its characters as an "alchemologist" - stop trying to sound smart, it's alchemist
February 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
old woman yells at cloud: cataloging a YA novel that describes one of its characters as an "alchemologist" - stop trying to sound smart, it's alchemist
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Iowa's House File 274, which would criminalize librarians, passes out of the House Education Committee. It can now be heard on the floor.
What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through.
bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...
What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through.
bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...
Iowa Rushes, Advances Librarian Criminalization Bill
Introduced last week, Iowa's librarian criminalization bill has already made it to the House floor.
bookriot.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Iowa's House File 274, which would criminalize librarians, passes out of the House Education Committee. It can now be heard on the floor.
What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through.
bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...
What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through.
bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...
Mark Fisher's appeal of "We have to invent the future" is as urgent as ever.
February 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Mark Fisher's appeal of "We have to invent the future" is as urgent as ever.
explaining psychedelia to the sheet music cataloging librarian
February 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
explaining psychedelia to the sheet music cataloging librarian
The punkers met up at a park every Wednesday and Saturday, then when they were banned from the park they were invited into Luteran Open Work evenings, which were spaces that were--for a time--exempt from state surveillance and fostered oppositional movements.
February 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The punkers met up at a park every Wednesday and Saturday, then when they were banned from the park they were invited into Luteran Open Work evenings, which were spaces that were--for a time--exempt from state surveillance and fostered oppositional movements.
"Don't die in the waiting room of the future." - Ostpunk graffito
February 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Don't die in the waiting room of the future." - Ostpunk graffito
Stasi archives of photographs documenting punk culture when being a punker really meant something, nowadays we have punkologists (to quote Kim Gordon) and consumers
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Stasi archives of photographs documenting punk culture when being a punker really meant something, nowadays we have punkologists (to quote Kim Gordon) and consumers
reading Burning Down the Haus about punk in East Germany, such a history is possible because of the bureaucratic apparatatus' love of documentation, the history of any kind of resistance in the 21st century will vanish because it is recorded on servers that will eventually fail
February 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
reading Burning Down the Haus about punk in East Germany, such a history is possible because of the bureaucratic apparatatus' love of documentation, the history of any kind of resistance in the 21st century will vanish because it is recorded on servers that will eventually fail
the noise to new age pipeline
February 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
the noise to new age pipeline
annoyed that i've told yt to not show me ai music channels but it still does, there are so many albums made by humans existing in social historical material contexts that informed their musical tendencies that i would rather listen to than someone's genrefied slush with bad comic book art
February 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
annoyed that i've told yt to not show me ai music channels but it still does, there are so many albums made by humans existing in social historical material contexts that informed their musical tendencies that i would rather listen to than someone's genrefied slush with bad comic book art
Genre isn't real, but musical tendencies are and those are more interesting to track. Aspiring to genre is a way to put the musical cart before the horse and wouldn't you rather go for a gallop?
Determining the genre of music by how it sounds doesn't really do anything. If you learn that a piece of music is "ambient", this tells you nothing important. More interesting is determining genre by what the music does. Maybe it is a historical-romance, a picaresque, a whodunit, or bildungsroman.
February 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Genre isn't real, but musical tendencies are and those are more interesting to track. Aspiring to genre is a way to put the musical cart before the horse and wouldn't you rather go for a gallop?
Grimes wrote one good song and she stole the music video concept from Naomi Elizabeth and I forget what its called and I haven't listened to it in years and I honestly don't care about her but this is my contribution to the discourse.
February 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Grimes wrote one good song and she stole the music video concept from Naomi Elizabeth and I forget what its called and I haven't listened to it in years and I honestly don't care about her but this is my contribution to the discourse.
Has anyone made this joke? Wow, we really fell for that African prince scam big time.
February 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Has anyone made this joke? Wow, we really fell for that African prince scam big time.
on a downer folk tip
February 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
on a downer folk tip
A curious trippers delight.
Zweistein – Trip • Flip Οut • Meditation (1970, Germany) Full 3 x Album
YouTube video by kokoras liratos
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February 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A curious trippers delight.
Not much to say today, enjoying this downer folk playlist.
Mental acid Folk - sYke Downer - YouTube
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February 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Not much to say today, enjoying this downer folk playlist.
People are talking about what is going on in the world more cogently and humorously than I can. Learning about krautrock for me is about music, but its also about studying a project rooted in the desire for a new collective identity that isn't tied to the violence of nationalistic hegemony.
January 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
People are talking about what is going on in the world more cogently and humorously than I can. Learning about krautrock for me is about music, but its also about studying a project rooted in the desire for a new collective identity that isn't tied to the violence of nationalistic hegemony.
Not a lot of women in the Krautrock scene, historically...
January 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Not a lot of women in the Krautrock scene, historically...
It's stage 4 capitalism, I'm afraid.
January 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It's stage 4 capitalism, I'm afraid.
the unengaged 'oh' and 'wow' of the captive interlocutor
January 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
the unengaged 'oh' and 'wow' of the captive interlocutor
semi-precious cargo
January 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
semi-precious cargo