“(Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century’s great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we’d now call vintage shopping, ‘the non-reading of books’ is a defining characteristic of serious bibliomaniacs; he cites Anatole France, who blithely admitted that… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Not only has there never before been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its immediate past, but there has never before… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“(Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century’s great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we’d now call vintage shopping, ‘the non-reading of… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“He revels in all the empowering conveniences that the iPod offers, like being able to ‘correct’ albums by removing their weak tracks (even on… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The downside of shuffle soon revealed itself, though. I became fascinated with the mechanism itself, and soon was always wanting to know what was… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Is nostalgia stopping our culture’s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“old music these days. He explained that the industry divided releases up into ‘current’ (which spanned from day one of release to fifteen months… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Jungle's sound-world constitutes a sort of abstract social realism; when I listen to techstep, the beats sound like collapsing (new) buildings and the bass… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
