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Kurt Andersen: From Fashion to Housewares, Are We... →
Ironically, new technology has reinforced the nostalgic cultural gaze: now that we have instant universal access to every old image and recorded sound, the future has arrived and it’s all about dreaming of the past. Our culture’s primary M.O. now consists of promiscuously and sometimes compulsively reviving and rejiggering old forms. It’s the rare “new” cultural artifact that doesn’t seem a lot...
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The Geography of the Year in Music →
MPI alum Patrick Adler, now a doctoral student in urban planning at UCLA, used allmusic.com’s database and press coverage to assign a locational “base of operations” for every act and artist on Pitchfork’s list. Then he counted up the number of hits (or hit-making acts) per city. If an artist had two hits, they were counted twice. If there was a collaboration involving artists from...
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