@UbuPamplemousse

Author, of "Shake the City," from @1968_Press. Insta: https://xitter.cf/t.co/fZ0XWn4HUf Bluesky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/1J9iowLEAd

 North Hollywood, CA
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Joined July 2020
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Anyone who did this to me, I would leave so quickly their head would spin.
forgotten bookshop@oldbookishplaceOct 21
I have an older gentleman who comes into the shop about once a week. He’s very quiet, says hello, browses books for half an hour or so, finds something he likes, leaves. Today he told me that he has spent years trying to rebuild his library after his wife decided she was
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1968 Press@1968_PressOct 18
Special Offer: Shake the City + To Whom It May Concern alexanderbillet.substack.com…
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1968 Press@1968_PressOct 18
Check out @acidhorizonpod's interview with Alex Billet, author of the brilliant Shake the City. Second edition dropping Nov 4th. youtube.com/watch?v=XJKNQk2I…

*PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Acid Communism and the Sonic Imagination: 'Shake...

Full episode is here: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/po...

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I recently did an interview with Adam C. Jones of @acidhorizonpod about the book, acid communism and the sonic imagination. Prepping for the interview, I wrote out some notes which went largely unused. Here are those notes, in written interview form. alexanderbillet.substack.com…
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It feels like we're losing a lot of brilliant comrades lately...
Historical Materialism Journal@histmatOct 12
It is with immense sadness and grief that we at Historical Materialism share the news of the death of our comrade, friend and long-standing member of the journal’s editorial board, Peter Thomas.
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I am also excited.
1968 Press@1968_PressOct 7
1968 Press is excited to announce the second edition ofAlex Billet’s 'Shake the City', coming this November. Sign up for a yearly subscription to Alex’s Substack 'To Whom It May Concern…' and receive 20% off and a free copy. alexanderbillet.substack.com
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1968 Press@1968_PressOct 7
1968 Press is excited to announce the second edition ofAlex Billet’s 'Shake the City', coming this November. Sign up for a yearly subscription to Alex’s Substack 'To Whom It May Concern…' and receive 20% off and a free copy. alexanderbillet.substack.com
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Motherfucker, you tell me who to pay to never hear from this ginger canker sore again and I’ll empty my bank account.
No Context Brits
@NoContextBritsOct 5
£10,000,000 but you can never listen to an Ed Sheeran song again. Would you take it?
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Let me, @TobyManning and @UbuPamplemousse explain Popular Modernism to you at HM this year
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Book announcement! This November, @1968_Press will publish a new + expanded version of my book Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis. If you sign up for a paying subscription to my Substack, you can get a complimentary copy! alexanderbillet.substack.com…
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Blood, guts, anger, and a whole lot of critical theory. "Worms of the Senses" for September 2026. alexanderbillet.substack.com…
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Coach McGuirk reads Foucault. youtube.com/watch?v=c1aHYOyR…

We All Live in Our Own Prisons

This conversation? It's a prison (Home Movies S03E10)

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Congrats, folks, after 3 years of genocide, 20 of siege & blockade, 59 of occupation & apartheid, 78 of ethnic cleansing, and a century and a half of colonization - all enabled & justified by media like the New York Times - we've finally reached peak Hot Dog Suit Guy
Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristofSep 27
A fair question: How did humanity allow Gaza to happen? And the answer is not just about Israel, but also about the role of the US in particular in providing the 2,000-pound bombs and diplomatic support that resulted in this. Democrats and Republicans alike bear responsibility.
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Jeff Weiss
@PassionweissSep 28
Iggy Pop described the new Protomartyr as "highly themed & symphonic in its reach. I could call it a kind of drive-through Sgt. Peppers, but that would miss the mark." For POW, @UbuPamplemousse writes a poignant essay about "Hotel Usona," the bleak moment, and trying to "find hope in a dismal establishment." powmag.net/p/protomartyr-hot…

(Don’t) Enjoy Your Stay

Protomartyr’s latest record, Hotel Usona, is an examination of this American moment. It’s not exactly subtle—but what about the present is?

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The rights of property before humans. Same as it ever was…
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinsonSep 26
unfortunately AI safety is in the hands of lunatics who believe that if you shut down a computer you might be "killing" it and violating its rights
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Really proud of this one. And of course the record absolutely slaps.
pxt@paulxtSep 28
Today at the magazine, @UbuPamplemousse considers a record that tries to define this moment in America, with all its unsubtle ugliness powmag.net/p/protomartyr-hot…

(Don’t) Enjoy Your Stay

Protomartyr’s latest record, Hotel Usona, is an examination of this American moment. It’s not exactly subtle—but what about the present is?

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AI can’t “think.” It can carry out processes. Conflating the two carries profoundly dangerous (though potentially profitable) implications.
Richard Seymour@leninologySep 26
Incidentally, the claim that AI “thinks” is not really a technical claim about LLMs, but a philosophical claim about thought; behind each such claim is a really dreadful, impoverished philosophy of mind.
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New piece up at @LocustReview on Ed Sheeran, taste, and the changing dimensions of capitalist realism. locustreview.com/online/how-…

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Ed Sheeran — Locust Review

Because Ed Sheeran doesn’t exist. Not really. He may have at one point, but the avatar that cried onstage in Philadelphia and wants you to cry for him isn’t, in the end, a human with their own wants...

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bat020@bat020Sep 24
how the fuck has this become a lesser known album sorry do I have to become a Millennial Hater now
GenTXer2
@GenTXer2Sep 23
Lesser known 90s album recommended by @Stu_ART_P Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (1997)
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