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Chimeras

June 24, 2014 by cillian19

Playing a symphony on board the station above the new world, the man leans hard towards the old sounds, places his cheek against the cold speaker. Even as the vessel flings forward through a stream of detritus – bows of dead satellites, many-ton compacted cubes of trash – and the view out is brilliant, his mind stays on the Rachmaninoff, on Van Cliburn. Number Two, as far back as he can remember, has been punctuated by the soft tick of the breathing machines, […]

Categories: Affect, Creativity, Nostalgia, Writing • Tags: Cyborg, Cyborg Manifesto, Digital, Digitalisms, Donna Haraway, Technology, Technoromance, Technoromanticism

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The Party Is Never Over

June 21, 2014 by cillian19

“And raving is everywhere you’re not And everything you’re not” -From On and On and On, by Ryan Kuo If you were born at a certain time, you missed the rave years. All that is left is misplaced nostalgia for those of us not lucky enough to be in England at the right time, or in Detroit at the right time. James Leyland Kirby’s recent The Death Of Rave tracks, in which he breaks down rave mega-hits into ambient soundscapes, speaks […]

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Rough Trade

June 6, 2014 by cillian19

Perfectionism is a massive hurdle to creative work. The same impulse that is essential to editing, that moves you to check each line, fix up your prose, cut out every junky, nonsensical, messy bit, is the same drive that erases everything thorny and difficult. In the impulse to perfect, smooth out and tidy up is a very seductive illusion of control. It’s an illusion, that you can control how anyone might read your work, how they might perceive you, or what […]

Categories: Creativity, Process, Reflection, Writing

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Nostalgia Mining

June 3, 2014 by cillian19

Certain songs take on colossal, completely disproportionate significance for me, giving me an inordinate amount of happiness no matter how many times played, no matter the time of day. The Borderlands opening theme song, “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked,” is one of them. I’m playing it right now. It isn’t a particularly great song, not one I’d glom onto if I heard it at random on the radio. The song is important for me because it is associated with an experience, […]

Categories: Affect, Creativity, Game Reviews, Games, Nostalgia, Process, Reflection, Time, Writing

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Arcane Process

June 1, 2014 by cillian19

Many writers I know wonder most of the time about what other writers, both young and experienced, are doing. The whole process can seem arcane and magical, like you need to find a key locked in a silver box to master it. One day, you will find it. The reality seems closer to a vertical wall that you have to clamber up with a death grip on each hold. Every writer has a different process. I’ve been hearing advice about […]

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