Creating “the Ultimate Retro-Future”: Music, Nostalgia and Futurity in Tron...
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While the French duo Daft Punk look back to the disco era of the 1970 with their just released album “Random Access Memory” (2013) – a nostalgic salute to their musical roots – their sound track to the...
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Psychedelic Echoes of German New Left Negative Utopianism. In tracing the historical context of German psychedelic music (also known as “Krautrock” or “Kosmische Musik”), a convenient musical/political...
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The past supplies us with a vast amount of futures: past visions and horror scenarios about anything from nuclear wars or welfare states to space invasions. In our age they are given a second life as...
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