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VYS0061 | Talking About Talking About Talking About UFOs
You know, it is gratifying when you point out a very obvious (to you) hanging thread, and someone takes the time to follow it and, most importantly, has the capacity to comprehend it. Good job, lads.
LINK: https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0061
“When dark tourism goes para-terrestrial: Online legend-tripping and touring the void”
A friend from Cambridge forwarded this.
Sophie James *, James Cronin
A B S T R A C T
Using ˇZiˇzek’s concept of ontological incompleteness, we theorise the touristic appeal of online legend-tripping as derived from the fantasy of traversing reality’s uncharted horizons. While online legends such as ‘the Backrooms’ invoke curiosity in suffering and the macabre, they deviate from the sense of heritage, moral guardianship, and evidential integrity that characterise physical dark tourism. Drawing upon an observational netnography of the ‘r/backrooms’ community on Reddit, we unpack processes of temporal suspension, ‘good’ alienation, and transcendence downward which enable online legend-tripping to function as a ‘para-terrestrial’ variant of dark tourism. The importance of real-world referents recedes, giving way to subjective encounters with the unknown. Obscene enjoyment displaces moral engagement, and participatory mythmaking supplants the bureaucratisation and commoditisation of travel experiences.
‘Depraved in all the right ways’: why forgotten no wave visionary Gordon Stevenson is about to take off
He made the notorious film Ecstatic Stigmatic. He designed punk jewellery worthy of Westwood. He played in a ‘perfect’ band with Lydia Lunch. Now a newly discovered archive is casting new light on this star of the New York demimonde
A Weird Wiki
I get a lot of unsolicited emails from people who want to share information. Usually, these people use throwaway email addresses and obviously fake names. I usually don’t respond because I’ve learned my lesson over the years, and my patience for having my time wasted has diminished in this modern world. Anyway, I was thinking about a wiki I was sent in 2024, so I checked back in. It’s still there, but it seems to be abandoned. Seeing how things have shaken out in the subject area this covers, I made a PDF of the wiki for posterity. Not promoting this as “real,” but considering the timeline, it was definitely prescient. I share this purely for entertainment purposes.
The following link sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. - https://0th3r.xyz/index.php/Main_Page
Ben Morea, Principal Provocateur of 1960s Anarchist Group, Dies at 84
An abstract painter who wanted to creatively destroy the gap between art and revolution, he loosely led a band of radicals with a profane name.
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