Cultural products are more than ever a class of financialized assets, whose owners are even further removed from artmaking

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The computer can be used to direct a network of global thermostats to pattern life in ways that will optimize human awareness. Already, it’s technologically feasible to employ the computer to program societies in beneficial ways.

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For Jennifer Walshe, the term composition names an expansive field of experimental techniques, not a routine process of any sort. Long before becoming a professor of composition at Oxford, she developed an eclectic compositional practice spanning Western art music and DIY traditions, adapting the formal features of opera into works that are affecting, challenging, and often supremely funny...

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Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit an immortal 1995 dub-techno manifesto that forged links between Berlin, Detroit, and Jamaica, dissolving dance music’s throb into an ambient haze.

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From hardcore to corecore, or what is lost in a world of diminished scenes

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In the years before publishing his first novel, 1979’s Hear the Wind Sing, Haruki Murakami ran a jazz bar. The Japanese writer met his wife, Yoko, in the early 1970s, and as students at Waseda University in Tokyo, the pair opened Peter Cat, a small establishment that served coffee by day, as well as food and drinks each night...

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A festival at the borderlands of music and language

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Using blockchains to try to protect art just reduces it to currency

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Through his blog, k-punk, Mark Fisher pioneered a different kind of cultural criticism.

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