MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Tag: Twitter

  • Bookstores

    The point of a bookshop is not to find what you are looking for. To believe otherwise is to mistake the architecture of the labyrinth for that of the supermarket.   A bookshop is not a catalog made flesh, nor a repository of answers to pre-formed questions. It is a topos, a place of sacred…

  • Notes on TPOT/RATS

    One of the defining features of the TPOt crowd was that medium rat was running on such obscene levels of dopamine and peer validation, basic brain functions like memory got completely fried. The social high was so unrelenting it turned executive function into background noise. What emerged was a closed-circuit attention economy: ideas weren’t tested…

  • Social Media Inferno

    1) The Lacanian Loop of the Unsymbolized Real: Doomed to endlessly repeat the same arguments, forever caught in the pre-symbolic realm where difference cannot be articulated. The sinthomatic return of a repressed trauma: the trauma of having never truly had a point. This is the Lacanian Loop of the Unsymbolized Real – a realm before language…

  • The Malfunctioning Second Brain

    Twitter is not a thing of its own but more like a feedback loop of tv and cable. Biggest loser is Twitter if only because they joined tv and cable to block generational transfer and failed to notice right wing support among minorities (highest support for any republican in 60 years). Conventional wisdom on the…