Kid A would similarly be credited with “predictive” powers in relation to 9/11 in a passage from Chuck Klosterman’s 2005 book, Killing Yourself to Live. Klosterman writes about how “Everything in Its Right Place” evokes the city waking up, just as Crowe associated it with Tom Cruise crawling out of bed. “Kid A” is the sound of people going to work,
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Thus, “the moments of sensual pleasure in the idea, the voice, the instrument are made into fetishes and torn away from any functions which could give them meaning.”They exemplify what media theorist David Cecchetto, building on the work of John Durham Peters, calls “incommunication”: the process by which the impossibility of true communication cre... See more
Mack Hagood • Fidelity Angst — Real Life
- I felt I had something important to say. Except I did not. No element of our interaction felt important to me. If anything, I felt unqualified to talk about the things the reporter was asking me. I don’t have that much of an opinion about why certain Black Metal bands burn down churches.
Chuck Klosterman • Eating the Dinosaur
collectors are outliers who feel marginalized by society, and they were personally drawn to music that reflected those feelings.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Songs arise out of suffering, by which I mean they are predicated upon the complex, internal human struggle of creation and, well, as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel. Data doesn’t suffer. ChatGPT has no inner being, it has been nowhere, it has endured nothing, it has not had the audacity to reach beyond its limitations, and hence it doesn’t ha
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But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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