This is not a vault. It’s a living fossil record of ideas, cultural detritus, and half‑formed obsessions. The Postmodern Prometheus archives are less about nostalgia than archaeology: every essay, fragment, and sonic ghost filed here is part of an ongoing experiment in how culture remembers itself—and how we rewrite it.
This is where the threads converge: essays on the afterlife of world music and the ethics of the geomedia, deep dives into Burundi Beat and post‑Soviet rap, urban psychogeographies mapping panel housing and cultural memory, cinematic dissections of identity, myth, and space. These are the working notes of Postmodern Prometheus: cultural theory spliced with pop detritus, archival ghosts colliding with TikTok trends.
Read, wander, get lost. Follow the echoes and help us keep writing this map.
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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Arma17: Reviving Russian Rave
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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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Immersion Journal: An Experiment
My Immersion Journal deep dive post-factum a few days of netnography research with Robert Kozinets. Read more
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