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Inspired by Gil-Scott Heron’s song Revolution Will Not Be Televised, 1971.
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‘REVIVAL WILL NOT BE TELEVISED’ MINI-series
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Arma17 wasn’t just a club—it was a glitch in the matrix. A myth built from basslines, state pressure, and post-industrial dreams. This is the story of how Russian techno resurrected itself through atmosphere, archive, and illusion.
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Decoding World Music
What do Tuvan throat-singing rock bands, 1960s field recordings from Burundi, and TikTok-viral Bashkir folk hits have in common? Somewhere between exploitation and celebration, World Music 2.0 emerges as kitsch, critique, and cultural cipher—all at once.
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The Lomax ODYSSEY: Into The Folk Revival
From Dust Bowl ballads to post-punk drums, this piece traces how Lomax recordings, Pete Seeger, and British revivalism turned archives into cultural blueprints. Music isn’t memory—it’s identity in the making.
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‘THE DARK SIDE OF THE CITY’ TELLTALES
5 Spooky Hotels: When Movies and Real Life Blur
Hotels can be more than just places to sleep; they’re full of tales, some far more chilling than others. This piece highlights 5 unnerving hotels that have appeared in movies, stories, and reality.
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Love, Dolls, and Gothic Romance
The Dark Side of the City: Living with a Sex Doll. Into a long-time relationship with a synthetic doll and the uncanny.
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Defenestration: A Story of Legendary Exit
Dive into our Word of the Day: “Defenestration” — a term that leaps from historical episodes to modern art installations, capturing the edgy unpredictability of the urban fabric.
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Our Landscape of Memory: From Sans Soleil to Persepolis
Explore the intricate dance of memory and truth through cinematic gems like “Sans Soleil,” “Waltz with Bashir,” and “Persepolis.” In an age of “alternative facts,” these films challenge us to question the very stories that shape our reality.
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The Old Tale of the Desert Monolith
Uncover the UFO excitement while decoding the mystery of Utah’s artistic monolith.
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The Geomedia Paradox: Surveillance or Inclusion?
Keeping artists on watch: how to reimagine the future of public spaces in a digitized world with “Geomedia”.
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Peep Through the Window: An Online Exhibition on Voyeurism’s Dark Side
Step into the world of observation, where voyeurism and isolation unravel the intricate power dynamics between privacy and public visibility in “Rear Window” online exhibition.
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Of New Wave Cinema and Godard
An film review of Godard’s timeless New Wave masterpiece ”Two or Three Things I Know About Her”.
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Claustrophobia and the City: The Hidden Blueprint of ‘Die Hard’
If life is a theatre, than a city is a big scene. Skyscrapers, elevators, air ducts are reverse part of the city, hidden from our sight. Into the cinematic exploration of “the dark side” of architecture in cult classic “Die Hard”.
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“One Sunday in the City…”
One dull Sunday reflections from the author: throw in a bit of urban semiotics, sprinkle of branding, and voila – cities are living sensory experiences, not just functional living spaces. Enjoy the piece, but don’t forget to take a break and shake off that Lars von Trier-esque urban fatigue!
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The Semiotic Light Phone, or Why We Don’t Read Books We Buy
An essay by Dylan Bilyard on how our purchases shape our identities more than we realize, influencing the way we view ourselves in society.
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Turn, Turn, Turn: Cultural Shifts and the Wall of Dolls
Cultural turns don’t just twist theory — they twist the streets we walk. In this issue, we follow the threads from academic jargon to Milan’s haunting Wall of Dolls, where public space remembers what society tries to forget. Feminism, spatial violence, and epistemology meet in the city’s shadow.
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Concrete Nostalgia, OR THE ART OF DÉRIVE
Urban trauma wears many masks: some prefab, some pixelated, some branded as the “New East.” In this issue of Dark Side of the City, we drift through psychogeography, panel housing, and the haunted aesthetics of post-socialist space.
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Movie quotes
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
Chinatown
1974
“My mama always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
Forrest Gump
1994
“Good morning, and in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!”
The Truman Show
1998
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