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“Music is writing. Writing is art. Art is music. Simple,” says the DJ.
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Standardized technology “deadens a lot of amazing stuff,” but it also allows people to customize their sensory landscape in new ways.
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“My work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit,” says the DJ.
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Miller remixed D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” as a critique on racial politics. His Antarctica project touches on many of the same ideas, differently.
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“Go to the most remote place that you can imagine, set up a studio and see what music comes out of it.”
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DJing is like being a conductor, and a composer of collage—you get to “mess around with people’s memories of songs.”
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Paul Miller is more of a nuts and bolts kind of guy, while DJ Spooky can be wilder.
Here then is the hidden truth that none of the established political parties will tell the electorate in this, the penultimate week in what is fast proving to be one […]
When literary critics like Lionel Trilling wrote in the 1950s and ’60s, they wrote for “a readership of people who believed that your taste in literature or your taste in […]
I used to have a joke I told all the time, back when the mortgage business was booming, about the “loan officer’s tool kit.” If I saw someone standing in […]
"Maybe it’s time to admit that we may never find a way to reconcile consumers who want free entertainment with creators who want to get paid," writes Megan McArdle.
Neil Simon "does not think against society; he thinks with it, observing and recording the sorrows and deliriums of the middle class, like a sort of swami of tsuris," writes John Lahr.
Stanley Fish is not surprised that the Supreme Court struck down a statute criminalizing the production and sale of "crush videos" depicting animal cruelty for sexual fetishists.
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini argue that new genetic discoveries reveal a flaw in Darwin's fundamental argument of evolution by natural selection.
Eliot Spitzer wonders whether investment banks do anything that helps America anymore—and, as such, whether these banks deserved the government bailouts they received.
The Internet hasn't brought the global peace, love, and liberty that many believed it had promised. "A networked world is not inherently a more just world," writes Evgeny Morozov.
Researchers have discovered that mammals may have the biochemical machinery to produce their own morphine.
Wine grapes are extraordinarily temperature-sensitive, and as global warming intensifies the “premium-wine-grape production area [in the United States] … could decline by up to 81 percent."
Genetic scientists are discovering hundreds of genes involved in human disorders by looking at the DNA of distantly-related species.