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Flop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene

Alexis Ong theverge.com

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Floppies “force their users to confront the transience of art and information”

The End of the Subscription Era is Coming

Nick Hilton nickfthilton.medium.com

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Can we imagine what will come after the subscription economy? Will it just be a case of bundeling everything up again?

How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire

404media.co

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Introducing the Archive of Punk Technologies

Anna Lathrop medium.com

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Punk Technologies are technologies in a broad sense of the term; any knowledge, technique, or tool developed or designed to augment, assist, or adapt cultural or individual norms and practices and/or make use of surrounding resources can be considered a technology. A book is a technology the same as a robot.

Jonathan Harris: Different Ways of Looking

youtube.com

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Curation has replaced creation

Ireland's Memory Machines — The Dial

Jessica Traynor thedial.world

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Our memories are now contingent on technology

Touching, Not Mastering. Materiality and Hapticity in Sound Art and Experimental Film by Gabriele Jutz

researchcatalogue.net

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The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm

bbc.com

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The algorithm determines not just what we see, but also how we see the medium through which we consume.

I had countless conversations with reporters in the pre-Elon Musk Twitter era who could not fathom doing their jobs without the site, who insisted that Twitter was where sources and scoops and true insight lay. It was utterly wrong and also completely understandable in a way that made arguing about it futile: Twitter could feel like a direct... See more

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