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Lewis Gordon
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for the best part of this year, I've been speaking to former Maxis developers to put together this: a near-6000 word oral history of Spore 🦠 www.designroom.site/spore-an-ora...
also, take that PC music
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Easily one of the hardest albums i've heard all year — for @bandcamp.com, i spoke with Debit about mexico, club music futurism, and getting lit at Señor Frog’s as a teen.
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A really good take by @lewisgordon.bsky.social: perhaps this repetetive, empty aesthetics is very timid in the face of chaotic and unpredictable reality. Unified, repeating office space anxiety (Matrix, Fight Club ...) was already there in the late 90s.
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I really dug Phoenix Springs. Read what I thought about it here.
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Yes, yes, yes -- tantalising and gorgeous, just like Phoenix Springs, though pushing Calligram's style in a bold new direction.
also get into resonances between backrooms and exit 8, characters looking in rather than out, a retreat into space rather than confrontation
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which is to say, i'm not sure this iteration of backrooms or liminal spaces more broadly is fit for purpose for wherever the hell we are right now. the anxiety it purports to reflect is rendered in strangely anodyne terms, and the mid-2020s are anything but anodyne
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An odd one, Backrooms — on the one hand, supremely now; on the other, its metaphorical thrust feels a touch dated, like reading a mark fisher essay from 15 years ago.
I wrote about the film and liminal spaces at large for @artreview.bsky.social.
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A wild bet in development for the better part of a decade, Spore reached for the stars — and, at times, got there. We recently spoke to eight team members, including chief designer Will Wright, to loo...
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Delia Beatriz's fusion of Mexican club and traditional music is ferocious, uncompromising, and deeply political.
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