Thursday, September 1 2011
Pal198X Informercial by Neon Indian
Neon Indian has created a late night video oddity that is the perfect blend of eerie and nostalgic for the heady arthouse sci-fi camp of SubGenius propoganda films.
Monday, August 8 2011
‘Retromania’: You’d Throw It Against the Wall If You Weren’t So Immersed in It
Retromania is about the anxiety of influence; how our present moment is feeding into it, how it emerged framed as a historical inevitability, and how its necrotic collateral is any futurism that may have the audacity to disregard the past.
Monday, June 27 2011
Retromania Vs. Innovation: An Interview with Simon Reynolds
PopMatters talks with music critic Simon Reynolds about his new book Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past, as well as the modern state of pop futurism, the changing nature of music criticism, and the post-punk historian's favorite '80s alt-rock bands.
