http://lab404.com/glitch A recent essay applying Bakhtin’s theory of the utterance to the phenomenon of the electronic glitch. Presented recently at http://gli.tc/h in Chicago. The following William Burroughs quotation is obliquely relevant: [Language] is a component of the body like any other… Words are mircro-organisms, living dust that the electronic revolution only assembles and orders, right [...]

Ethereal Phrases Selected Search Terms that led people to my web sites between 08/01/2009 – 08/16/2009 I am a web stats junkie. In addition to checking the number of visitors that come to my three URLs ( http://lab404.com , http://playdamage.org , http://deepyoung.org ), I also check referral sites (other sites that linked visitors to my [...]

I’ve been listening to Scott Walker all summer. I compiled this semi-chronological streaming mix of his “music,” alternately interspersed with other artists either directly or indirectly influenced by him. Walker starts off as a crooner and winds up as a kind of concrete noise poet (or something) — thus running the gamut from Nick Drake to [...]