MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Category: MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

  • The Super-Ego Injunction

    “Doctor, if I quit content creation, will I finally be happy?” “Of course not—but you’ll stop pretending you might!” Ah, the obscene superego injunction of late capitalism: “Create! Brand yourself! Be free!”—but only within the coordinates of a system that simultaneously democratizes the tools of production and annihilates the possibility of their emancipatory use. We…

  • The Junk Merchants

    “The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.” ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch The rise of social media platforms has revolutionized the way people communicate, interact, and access information. These platforms have become…

  • The Rate of Pasts Abandoned

    The so-called “distributed futures” of Web3 are, at first glance, a messianic promise of decentralization, an illusory liberation from the bureaucratic chains of Web2. Yet, when observed closely, this very promise betrays itself as a fetishized spectacle of freedom—what Zizek might call a “decaffeinated future,” one where the appearance of innovation is stripped of its…

  • Rules of the Game

    There’s a sickness in the air. It smells like Axe body spray, fear, and poorly structured hedge funds. The streets of Wall Street are crawling with a new breed of mark: the finance bro. You know the type—high-and-tight haircut, teeth like polished marble, and a face that screams, Dad says I’m a winner. These goons…

  • The SV Ouroboros: Eating Its Own Future

    Ah, the glittering contradictions of Silicon Valley, where the titans of “innovation” hold the steering wheel with one hand and strangle competition with the other. The ecosystem of disruption is now an ant farm encased in venture-backed resin. We’re engineering a conflict to kickstart a future that will take us forward 75 years into the…

  • Elon’s Reverse Von Braun

    Elon Musk is a living prototype of the reverse Von Braun, a man who started with rockets and electric cars and ended up in the ideological trenches, slowly backpedaling into the past like a man moonwalking into a burning building. Von Braun had the good sense to launder himself through history’s acceptable filters. He started…

  • The Inverse Law of Cool

    The Inverse Law of Cool is a concept that describes the relationship between popularity and coolness. It suggests that as something becomes more popular and mainstream, it becomes less cool. The concept was first introduced by the writer and cultural critic Douglas Coupland in his 1991 novel “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.” In…

  • Tower Of Babel

    The Tower of Babel was humanity’s first great technological project—a monolithic structure reaching upward, striving not merely to defy the heavens but to commune with the divine. It was a collective undertaking, a shared aspiration to transcend the limitations of mortality and scatterings of difference, an effort to collapse the space between humanity and God.…

  • At War With the Archetype: The Fluidity of Roles in the Monomyth

    The archetypes, those universal symbols of human experience, are not fixed stars in the firmament. They are currents in a river, shifting with the flow of time, circumstance, and choice. You may begin as the Hero, setting forth on your journey to slay the dragon, but in the act of victory—or failure—you may find yourself…

  • The Death of Recognition

    People are so entangled in their own subjectivity that the Other ceases to exist as an autonomous being; instead, they are reduced to a projection, a prop in the theater of one’s self-conception. The Other is not seen as a consciousness with its own projects and freedoms but as a necessary validation of the individual’s…