An xxjfg archive for posts featuring Steve Moore.
Via 50watts via Yugodrom. Futuristic roll call William Gibson, Greg Egan, Charles Stross, Philip K. Dick, Hannu Rajaniemi, Neal Stephenson, Cory Doctorow, Walter Jon Williams, Ted Chiang, China Mieville. Nuclear fission, nanotechnology and 3D printing provide a technical fix for our environmental quandary. Over-supply of material things renders their accumulation meaningless. Intangible ownership becomes the…
Having sond-mined our e-mail archive yesterday, let us now slip into the visualisator, a scanner developed by VizViz, a recently spun out gem from DARPA’s venerable portfolio of black swan investments. Visualisator transforms the ebbs and flows of our sickly subconscious into lurid imaginary. We hear that Apple has now acquired VizViz, and the next…
In the 22nd Century, Africa becomes to Asia what Asia is to America today, an ambitious and go-getting continent hungry to make its mark in this planet and beyond. Several foundational legends of the new pan-African identity underpin the development of its psychedelic space program – they include the re-appropriation of global dance culture (that…
(Otoman architecture via 50 Watts) As we descend parallel to the spike that impales the heart of the province over which our tower rises we reach a damp oubliette whose walls are covered in mysterious scribbles, the descent continues into the darkness, but we have never gone further, for an old man of foreboding countenance…
In these days of such recording trickeries, where lo-fi records made on $4000 Macpros are re-recorded into tape recorders bought at cash converters, and Daniel Bedingfield makes a number one hit in this bedroom (how did he get that string quartet in there?), it becomes increasingly difficult to tell with what means a record has…
What vinyl platters could wake 20JFG prematurely from its cryogenic slumber in 2010? What repetitive beats could make its unconscious and partially thawed corpse shuffle towards the nearest dancefloor? What warm-hearted heaters could possibly defrost that heart of stone and illuminate that mind of disillusionment? What songs offered comfort when we were sat down and told that our plan to…
“Nobody knows they’re here. But I do. I see them on the train, I see them in the shop. But even moreso these days, I see them in my neigbourhood. There must be a good landing spot around here, or maybe they are nesting in some big disgusting slimy hive somewhere. Whatever it is, they’re…
At point Argos somewhere deep in the Natwest quadrent of the Aspirin System floats a MK One Oreo vessel. It is a remote Googling ship locked in a monitoring orbit around the system’s only terrestrial moon, the hospitable PC World known as Maroon 5. A peaceful planet with a breathable atmosphere, its Amazon green surface is peppered with…
You might have noticed that in the past weeks we have posted tunes only for streaming. This is the case today, but no more. We have decided that our policy from now on will be to post songs only as mp3 for download. Although we understand labels preferring to have tunes only for streaming, we…
Three nightmares, for dancing in cold sweats at a seance when the moon is pulling your consciousness to dark places full of subliminal horror and nameless things that slip through the shadows: Its Zombie Apocalypse time again at 2OJFG! But this time the doomed hero of the story is you, trapped in an abandoned building in…
It is with an apocalyptic feeling of anticipation that we await for the activation of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. Of course our puny brains cannot even start to elucidate the sort of physics involved in the experiments that are to be conducted there, so we have decided to think about all…