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Even if, for a while, I feigned hatred of rock and roll, that only made sense on the presumption of its continued reign. Much the same could be said about liberal democracy. Today, American global hegemony looks like nothing more than a desperate reprisal of a role that must be ceded sooner or later; gone is the possibility of taking it for granted... See more

Justin E. H. Smith • My Generation, by Justin E. H. Smith

Lucy Sante - THIS LONG CENTURY

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The former option is mercurial and driven by elite gatekeepers, a powerful group built up over a century of modern cultural industries, riddled with their own blind spots and biases including those of gender and race.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Right now, rock music still projects the illusion of a universe containing multitudes. But it won’t seem that way in three hundred years, because nothing in the culture ever does. It will eventually be explained by one artist.

Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Hey Mr DJ, put a podcast on

Lauren Bravo laurenbravo.substack.com

In other words, “Strange” sounds like a regular song.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

A central component of “Idioteque” was a sample taken from “Mild und Leise,” an electronic music piece composed by Paul Lansky slightly less than thirty years earlier and released on an obscure 1976 album called First Recordings—Electronic Music Winners.

Steven Hyden • This Isn't Happening

You know the phrase “fuck-you money”? Radiohead will one day have “fuck-you” credibility.