MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Tag: Boomers

  • Burning down the house

    The music is still there. The sounds that shaped my early life, like sharp needles pricking my teenage skin, embedding themselves deep in my veins. I adored it. The riffs, the lyrics, the goddamn poetry of it all. The raw, uncut power of Boomer music was a truth I couldn’t deny. Clapton, Joni, Bowie—these people…

  • The Vacuum of Self Expression

    Economic Possibilities for Our Acid-Tripped Grandfathers: Forget Shangri-La, this is a cyberpunk dystopia built on ones and zeroes, chum. The shrewd bastards, saw the rise of the machines not as a liberation, but as an enclosure. They learned the language of the circuits, not to set us free, but to lock us in. Every line of code, a barbed wire fence around their digital fiefdom.…

  • Pulling the plug

    The Zoog faction, wired on a hyper-flux of information, their minds flickering with memes and TikTok ephemera, regard the FaceBook with a cold, reptilian disdain. It is a monolithic grey slab, a mausoleum of outdated statuses and vacation photos, where their parents – the Boomers, once flower-power radicals – now shuffle through a senescent digital…