Now I’m also blogging over at mediark.org. That blog will be more about issues of media regulation, media philosophy, creative, media-related ideas, empirical research and theory than this one. On this site, I’ll nevertheless keep blogging more personal – and, hopefully, … Continue reading
Wonkier than thou No pun intended. I love Rustie’s music, I love dubstep when it’s made with heart and soul and not being moody, adolescent, asexual stoner music. But it cracks me up that for anyone outside of this scene, … Continue reading
The music industry in the 2010s and the example of J*Davey They are building two new stadiums in my city. 105,000 new seats. This is entirely in line with what The Economist noted recently: For the media industry, the future … Continue reading
As British artist Mark Leckey won this year’s Turner Prize the other week, here’s a translation of an article I wrote about Leckey in 2004. The article originally featured in now-defunct absorb.org and digmagazine.com, and covers the musical aspects of … Continue reading
143 years after the abolition of slavery, and exactly 40 years after the Civil Rights Movement, the USA finally sees a black president. This is historical, and a reason to celebrate for everyone in this world. It was hardly the … Continue reading
With Bloom, Brian Eno and collaborator Peter Chilvers have created a piece of software for the iPod and the iPhone which lets the user create generative music. The Guardian writes: Bloom could be regarded as an album in which you, … Continue reading
Laissez-faire economics involves two actors: the state and the market… To my understanding, with the current credit crisis what we are seeing is not a completely unregulated market going bezerk. Although it is often said that the US-UK economy under … Continue reading
…and hopefully the beginning of a debate on what “making public” really means in an era of rapidly increasing digital accessibility and complex media ecologies. On Thursday 11 September, Swedish public service television SVT hosted a debate on the affair … Continue reading
♦ I’ve been bitten by a pitbull terrier. ♦ I’ve had various things thrown at me by gangs of kids: eggs, snowballs, stones. ♦ I’ve had my bedroom window crashed by a stranger trying to get in, while we were … Continue reading
How the extreme wealth of the West gives rise to the global shuffle-game of mobile labour: maybe there is a case for the neo-liberal ‘trickle down’ effect after all? Britain is at the end of the day a really exciting, … Continue reading
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