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Blue Labyrinths

@BlueLabyrinths

An online magazine focusing on philosophy, culture, and a collection of interesting ideas. Post schedule on pause until August.

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“no, the masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism” - Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, p.38. I’m not going to use this piece of shit platform anymore. Fuck Elon Musk and fuck Trump.
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After a long break over the summer we are very much back in action. On Sinofuturism: Cosmotechnics and dis-orient-ation bluelabyrinths.com/2024/08/3…
On Sinofuturism: Cosmotechnics and Dis-orient-ation

On Sinofuturism: Cosmotechnics and Dis-orient-ation

In The Question Concerning Technology in China, Yuk Hui claims that sinofuturism as it exists in its current form, i.e. as a hypercapitalist/communist hybrid with “Chinese characteristicsR…

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“…inherently tied to, and reflective of, the global. … Overcoming modernity through modernity recognizes the same philosophical imperative that underlies anti-hauntology. Localized aesthetics are not enough to counter the aesthetics of the apocalypse. In order to…” 4/
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“move beyond modernity as it exists now — trapped in its Backrooms and virtual plazas, haunted by digital ghosts symbolising the end — we must reconceptualize what localization means in relation to globalization.” 5/5
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Becoming-insect through Clarice Lispector’s "The passion according to G.H." bluelabyrinths.com/2020/02/2… via @bluelabyrinths
Becoming-insect through Clarice Lispector’s “The passion according to G.H.”

Becoming-insect through Clarice Lispector’s “The passion according to G.H.”

If I confirm my self and consider myself truthful, I’ll be lost because I won’t know where to inlay my new way of being — if I go ahead with my fragmentary visions, the whole world will have to be …

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A new review of the latest album by Japanese hip-hop trio Dos Monos (@dosmonostres) with a critical reevaluation of Fredric Jameson's notion of pastiche in late capitalist culture by our Editor Alessandro Sbordoni (@A_Sbordoni). bluelabyrinths.com/2024/06/1…
Music or Barbarism: Dos Atomos by Dos Monos

Music or Barbarism: Dos Atomos by Dos Monos

On the 31st of May 2024, Dos Monos, the experimental hip-hop group formed by Zo Zhit, Taitan, and NGS, returns to the music of the past in order to plunder it. If the American theorist Fredric Jame…

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"On the 31st of May 2024, Dos Monos, the experimental hip-hop group formed by Zo Zhit, Taitan, and NGS, returns to the music of the past in order to plunder it..."
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"If the American theorist Fredric Jameson defined the pastiche as the cultural strategy of late capitalism, the latest album by Dos Monos will make him turn again and again in his grave."
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This piece absolutely rocks. Sometimes amazes me how much some blog/mag I've never heard of can make the whole world of offical intellectualdom seem like a pyramid scheme. What is it about big-name outlets which so rigorously precludes this/any degree of soul? Anyway, thx
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A manifesto for a new conceptualization of the meaning of desire, subjectivity, and technology. Be careful: "Performing Organ Multiplication without critical thinking is a dangerous activity." bluelabyrinths.com/2024/06/0…
Multiplication of Organs: Desire, Humanity and Technology

Multiplication of Organs: Desire, Humanity and Technology

The Multiplication of Organs (MoO) [1] is not the Deleuzian Body without Organs (BwO), it is not the Žižekian Organ without Body, it is not the extension of McLuhan’s man, it is not Donna Har…

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Is the music of the future a global phenomenon? From the "Semiotics of the End" London book launch, BL editors Matt Bluemink and Alessandro Sbordoni discuss SOPHIE, sinofuturism, and the end of the world. youtu.be/8c9LwmbDhIo?si=KS0k…
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Is the music of the future a global phenomenon? From the "Semiotics of the End" London book launch, BL editors Matt Bluemink and Alessandro Sbordoni discuss SOPHIE, sinofuturism, and the end of the world. youtu.be/8c9LwmbDhIo?si=KS0k…
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Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism bluelabyrinths.com/2024/04/0… vía @bluelabyrinths

Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism

News of the mass of layoffs by Condé Nast, as well as discourse on the decline of music journalism and questions of its purpose in general have many fat-cat apologists agreeing that the industry’s …

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An excerpt from my book on the anti-hauntology debate hosted on @BlueLabyrinths and @xenogothic in 2021, where I talk about the electronic music of Chinese artists like 33EMYBW and Gooooose, and why hyperpop was never really anti-hauntological... tripleampersand.org/anti-hau…

Anti-Hauntology & the Semiotics of the End - TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&)

A ghost haunts the end: the ghost of the future. Mark Fisher writes in What is Hauntology? that “the future is always experienced as a haunting: as a virtuality that already impinges on the present,...

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Descent into the Maelstrom: A Note on Deterritorialization and Anti-Hauntology xenogothic.com/2024/04/29/de…
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thank you @BlueLabyrinths for publishing this piece on taylor swift and totalitarianism! bluelabyrinths.com/2024/04/1…
Taylor Swift and Totalitarianism

Taylor Swift and Totalitarianism

The system is broken. The celebrity is brighter than the sun. Only she can decide when it is day. There’s a sentiment amongst Swifies that if you wrong Taylor Swift, you will fall. They call it ‘ta…

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Music journalists alone aren't going to save us, but they are one of the last points of friction between music and total commodification. my first essay for .@BlueLabyrinths 👇 bluelabyrinths.com/2024/04/0…
Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism

Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism

News of the mass of layoffs by Condé Nast, as well as discourse on the decline of music journalism and questions of its purpose in general have many fat-cat apologists agreeing that the industry’s …

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