lol - i didn’t add the pull quote, but that gave me a chuckle.
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The cover art is stunning, makes me wanna instantly buy it 
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That is an ace cover!
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He certainly used to and founded the annual Lewes Psychedelic festival. I’m not sure whether he still lives here though.
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He does, I sold a record to him last year.
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@LazySimon & on Twitter shares an AIrBnB ( thats a real 80s semi & not a cabin in somoneones garden as I stayed in last year)
@LazySimon -Sorry I mock you about Lewes but best school friend lives there & I 
it & would move but makes you an easy target
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Top postpunk funk find from Tarotplane
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Amazing! Thanks for sharing.
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" The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction . Or call it scrolling or swiping or wasting time or whatever you want. But it’s not art or entertainment, just ceaseless activity.
The key is that each stimulus only lasts a few seconds, and must be repeated.
It’s a huge business, and will soon be larger than arts and entertainment combined. Everything is getting turned into TikTok—an aptly named platform for a business based on stimuli that must be repeated after only a few ticks of the clock."
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I liked your post, but I can’t stress enough how much I hate that. Just makes me want to push ever further in the opposite direction.
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Unfortunately it impacts my job which is Sponsorship and Digital Marketing Manager for a longstanding community radio station. Creating engaging content is part of the role. I’m still coming at things from a more “organic” perspective if that makes sense. I try to avoid “clickbait” style messages and headlines, as I really dislike that form of marketing and communication, but I need to play the game to some extent, or my role will be redundant.
I found the article very troubling and worrisome - especially as I have 2 teenagers who have been brought up in this headspace (as will many other forum members). I realise I am already a victim - I just hope they can see it as well.
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He’s a brilliant writer. Great at encapsulating what we know/feel we know in such a coherent way.
Post-entertainment indeed. Profoundly depressing scenario all round. We’ve said it before on here but this is what Skynet will actually look like: technology subjugating the human race so it destroys itself. No actual Terminator robots required.
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There is a ‘B2B’ equivalent in how loads of time, attention and investment is sucked into annual fads that promise everything and deliver nothing, first crypto, then the ‘metaverse’ and now AI. Cory Doctorow is great on these ‘bubbles’. Business should really be focusing on sustainability and climate but its attention span is too short.
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Yet another article that makes me so glad that I got to experience my childhood and adolescence in the 80s and 90s.
Despite a very happy childhood (great home life and I loved school), I didn’t have a real sense of self-worth. Clubbing gave me that. A musical playground where I could experiment with my identity/fashion/self-expression (dancing all night)/experiences. Along the way I learned to accept and understand people who were really different to me.
I get that young people might not need alcohol or drugs to have a good time, but fucking hell, where do you meet ‘your people’? Playing Grand Theft Auto?
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A side of London clubs I don’t know loads about… great article.
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