Posts tagged Colin Dickey

Analog Horror and Nostalgia

This is explicitly a function of nostalgia, but it is nostalgia had second-hand, where the original object is eerily absent, decontextualized and beginning to run down like William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops, where the original recordings were physically destroyed in the process of transferring them over.

Analysis, Literary Theory, Very Online, Written by: CameronCameron SummersSeptember 27, 2023Analog Horror, Stefan Grabiński, William Basinski, Mark Fisher, Grafton Tanner, Colin Dickey, Kane Pixels, Twin Peaks, The Backrooms, Poltergeist, Oxenfree, Kris Straub, Public Access (RPG) Comment

Cameron's Book Reviews: 2022, part 3.

It’s hot, and we have affordable air conditioning in one room that doesn’t feature a place to put my computer or set up a television, so it’s the season to lie in a sweaty pile, stare at squiggles on paper, and try to hallucinate someplace more interesting to be.