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Joy Division and the uncanny in music
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Re: Joy Division and the uncanny in music
Mar 12, 2015, 10:40
I'm currently reading Mark Fisher's (so far excellent) Ghosts Of My Life, which serenipidously has a chapter on JD discussing themes similar to this thread. It's based on this blog post, which is really worth a read: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004725.html

The book itself is a pleasingly lucid attempt to make sense of 'hauntology', particularly as it applies to music, but also to our culture in general. There's part of me that wonders whether this all isn't just a form of 'alternative nostalgia', but some of the concepts he examines do ring true. The intro, which looks at 'the slow cancellation of the future' via the medium of Sapphire and Steel ;-), is a brilliant piece of writing: http://thequietus.com/articles/13004-mark-fisher-ghosts-of-my-life-extract
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