Decadeology: Hyperpop, Archive Fever, and the Sound of the 2020s

“The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, Continue reading →

Solarpunk Music: Notes on Anti-Hauntology and Eco-Futurism

In the introduction to The Future is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds (2026) published Continue reading →

When Futurism Collapsed

Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner is perhaps the best movie to represent a future that was once held, at least Continue reading →

New Sci-fi Media, Anti-Hauntology, and the Future of Cinema

Faceshopping: Deconstructed Club and the Queer Futurity In February 2021, after electronic musician SOPHIE’s death, Matt Bluemink wrote a blog Continue reading →

Memes and Flames: The Aesthetics of the Gen Z Uprising

“The youth of Morocco carries the message of a nation,” reads an open letter from the Gen Z 212 movement Continue reading →

Empire of Sounds: Reconstructing the Japanese Pop of the 1980s

The anime Megazone 23, directed and written by Ishiguro Noboru and produced in 1985, can be cited as an example Continue reading →

Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism

News of the mass of layoffs by Condé Nast, as well as discourse on the decline of music journalism and Continue reading →

James Joyce’s Real-Life Hero

Leopold Bloom is the fictional hero of Joyce’s Ulysses but it was Paul Léon who embodied heroic qualities for real Continue reading →