dodgrile

Thanks for the response. You're right, my beef is probably more with consumer tech writing in general. "Anti-Spotify" still seems a bit hyperbolic to me, but to be fair so was my objection, and headlines are headlines I guess. Thanks too for linking to that piece by Allison McCann--… Read More

This is neat but I feel like your explanations kind of strips the subversiveness from the works. For example "ScrollTV" seems to me like a commentary on the trend towards the "here are X number of things for you to look at" mode of communication favored by BuzzFeed, Huffington Post… Read More

I think Rihanna just gave these kids the kick in the pants they needed-- now they'll work to make their TumblrArt less vacuous and superficial. lol

There's a difference between the military-tech complex at the individual level and the institutional level. Petraeus uses Gmail to coordinate his affair; the President has a Blackberry. Ok, sure: the men at the helm of the security state use the same consumer tech products as… Read More

Don't forget this one! A photo of Jihad Masharawi holding his dead 11-month-old son Omar. Nobody in the IDF Instagram'd it for some reason.

if "post-hip-hop" can't be defined aesthetically but only in terms of a certain critical self-consciousness, then what separates Kendrick from Posdnous? just time?

when you traffic in collective nostalgia you have to take the reblogs with the unattributed reblogs.

this must have been hell to assemble. also, lol at the one with the two couples both in the costume.

this spotify playlist has changed my perception of what music can be. i learned that music can have sounds or it can also not have sounds. thanks!

You completely lost me when you said, "Well, actually, computers have been assimilating audio and video stuff into their core for, like, ever." Er, I guess that's technically true? But still kind of a meaningless thing to say. Putting this seeming trend of built-into-OS proprietary… Read More