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 →

The Future is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds by Matt Bluemink

It’s finally here! The official release date for my new book The Future is Not Lost is 24th of June 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 →

Future Reloaded: An Interview with Matt Bluemink and Alessandro Sbordoni

XX121 is a large language model developed in 2021 by a team of researchers at Miskatonic University led by Julie Continue reading →

Arabic Hauntology: The Sound of Habibi Funk Records

The twenty-third album by Habibi Funk Records was released on the 14th of July 2023. But it may as well Continue reading →

Anti-Hauntology: Iglooghost, Mark Fisher, and the New Digital Modernism

In February this year I wrote a 4 part piece on the idea of anti-hauntology. Part 1 looked at the Continue reading →

Popular (Neo-)Modernism: Fisher, Meillassoux and Novelty

In the recent Anti-Hauntology debate Matt Bluemink and Matt Colquhoun discussed ways out of a current mode of culture that Continue reading →