Acceleration, Money and Identity

Today's somewhat random move. Had a couple of interesting political / philosophical conversations over the last week or so. So Hilan and I decided we'd resurrect the OPTIMAES blog as venue for them.

First post here.

We'll see how this goes. Not really planning to get back into OPTIMAES at the moment ... but who knows what next year will bring. (Certainly not me.)

Very nice. For a while I've been making a connection between Bruce Sterling's ideas of Atemporality and Dark Euphoria and some of my favourite musical movements. (That's why the hauntology bloggers are all under "Gothic High-Tech" in my blogroll.)

Now I see Bruce Sterling is debating debated Simon Reynolds who's also been tracing the end of musical progress in recent writings.

Should be a fascinating discussion. Hope there's a podcast.

I have a feeling I should be reading Frederic Jameson.