191 - Suburban Transpondency

"The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries." Marshall McLuhan Mr. Harper's BBQ, Pride Parade, Anarchists Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks: "Senator" Media Ecology, Internet Ecstasy, Global Carnival Lo-Fi-Fnk: "Shut The World Out (LFF Re-Fnk)" The Limousines: "Internet Killed The Video Star" Buttress O'Kneel: "The New Masters of the Universe" Das Racist x Talib Kweli: "The Actual (Prod. Amaze 88)" Azealia Banks: "Fantasea" iON & Bob Neveritt (aka Bob Dobbs): "The Basic Standard of Living" Rob Bentall: "Urca Twist" Laetitia Sadier: "There is a Price to Pay For Freedom (And it Isn't Security)" "...rant/probe by iON from 1 October 2009, goes further than Lord Buckley or Lenny Bruce by satirizing not so much the foibles, vices, and hypocrisies of your daily fivebodied, quadrophrenic “citizen” as to present a raucous inventory, in the style of Marshall McLuhan, of the effects of the present environmental surround (let’s call it Web 2.0) that reveals causes—all four of Aristotle’s—the likes of which no other artist, comedian, sociologist, psychologist, novelist, composer, or videographer could even hope to present, let alone imagine—with the para-human rapidity required of our Americanized attention spans..." ~Bob Neveritt "The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. Everything is changing: you, your family, your education, your neighborhood, your job, your government, your relation to "the others. And they're changing dramatically." The Medium is The Massage, Marshall McLuhan Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv Follow me on twitter Email: [email protected] Call my voicemail: 1 (716) 402-1462