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Wreath Lectures
GIFwave, Groundhog Day & Culture After The Apocalypse
Understanding the lessons of Groundhog Day has itself been a reiterative process for me. ...
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Gangnam Style & How The World Woke Up To The Genius Of K-Pop
Will 2012 go down in music history as the year the rest of the world finally realised tha...
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Give Us Your Eyes: 2012 Content Wars & The Attention Economy
Ears and eyeballs. Entire industries are rising or being torn apart and reconstructed aro...
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Dance 'Til The Police Come: Post-Punk Politics In 2012
For something that was feted so widely – and in this context, 'widely' means from The Wir...
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Wreath Lectures
2012: The Year The Establishment Didn't Crumble
As the cultural theorist Mark Fisher pointed out earlier this year, the whole of British ...
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Wreath Lectures
Too Loud & It All Sounds The Same? Why Researchers Were Wrong On Pop
Pedants and cranks have been predicting pop music's demise ever since its emergence in it...
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Black Sky Thinking
A Sorry State: Pop Marketing & Rihanna's Unapologetic
A week ago, I sat in a tiny red room, around a tiny table, to listen to a record. I wasn'...
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Black Sky Thinking
Social Media Myth: Why Facebook Hasn't Stolen Your Friends
Social media is often like an Ouroboros, the ancient symbol of a snake eating its own tai...
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Black Sky Thinking
It's Time For Brits To Stop Fawning Over US Politics & Set Our House In Order
To we British, America remains an exotic place. In the world of noise and perplexing art ...
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Black Sky Thinking
Taking Shits In Bags: America’s Election And Its (Other) Disasters
Today, we Americans will pick our next president — and in doing so, we’ll (kind of) answe...
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