Blissful serenity can be as machinic and impersonal as future-shock amnesia
Evidence
Tiny Colour Movies is a distillation of an aesthetic Foxx has dedicatedly explored since Ultravox’s Systems of Romance. Although Foxx is most associated with a future-shocked amnesiac catatonia (‘I used to remember/ now it’s all gone/ world war something/ we were somebody’s sons’), there has always been another trance-mode – more beatific and gently blissful, but no less impersonal or machinic – operative in Foxx’s sound, even on the McLuhanite Metamatic. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 353
Categorization
- XREF: Teases the paradox Fisher consistently tracks — the beatific and the machinic, nostalgia registers in electronic futurism — resonant with the whole Ghosts of My Life thesis about lost futures. — connects to: Anterograde amnesia captures the postmodern inability to accept the new — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 122; Modern shock experiences undermine the basis of traditional lived experience — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 861; Authentic emotion itself can function as a machinic refrain, not its opposite — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1189
Broader Connections
- Authentic emotion itself can function as a machinic refrain, not its opposite
#complicates(0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1189 - Modern shock experiences undermine the basis of traditional lived experience
#responds-to(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 861 - Anterograde amnesia captures the postmodern inability to accept the new
#responds-to(0.78) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 122