Recurring Dreams and Collective Unconscious: An Interview with Alex Zhang Hungtai

In I Had Nowhere to Go, director Jonas Mekas’ diary-like collection of writings covering his life from the abandonment of his Continue reading →

Terminal Velocity: The Cultural Logic of the Dance Music Edit

The presence of the edit looms large in today’s UK dance music scene. Also called bootlegs, refixes and reworks, edits Continue reading →

Give Up the Future: Organ Tapes and Tiqqun

By Lorenzo CirnigliaroTranslated by Alessandro Sbordoni In a previous article, entitled Born in the Lost Future, I tried to make Continue reading →

Born in the Lost Future: Bladee and Hauntology

By Lorenzo CirnigliaroTranslated by Alessandro Sbordoni Recently my mother told me that going twenty years back in time, she would Continue reading →

The Philosophy of Jungle and New Breakcore Music: From Rufige Kru to Machine Girl

Through that time machine also known as the Internet, the jungle music of Rufige Kru (AKA Goldie), DJ Crystl, and Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Welcome to the Virtual Plaza

Like factories, shopping centres today exist only to efface their omnipresence. After “society as a whole takes the appearance of Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Turbo-Violence

The image cannot present itself without a certain force, without a certain amount of violence. The image must always remove, Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Boredom at the End of the World

Dreams about the end of the world are not, perhaps, anymore the fruits of despair and fear alone. They are Continue reading →