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Dead Man Counting: An Economic Ghost Story

Dead Man Counting: An Economic Ghost Story

Peter Fleming's new book Homo Economicus attempts to lay zombie capitalism to rest.

The Survival of the Industrial Sonic in a Deindustrialized West

Techno’s Labor Force, Rock’s Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing

Techno’s Labor Force, Rock’s Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing

There’s a prevalent notion throughout techno and house music of human beings becoming well-oiled machines, or even merging with machines, a vision in keeping with Kraftwerk’s utopian Man Machine futurism or the dignified Soviet toil of Dziga Vertov’s The Man With a Movie Camera.