“In internet terms, UbuWeb is antediluvian”
March 31, 2021 8:40 AM Subscribe
Your hat sucks is an essay by Gill Partington about the venerable web repository of avant-garde literature and art, UbuWeb, and its founder Kenneth Goldsmith. She discusses and expands on her essay in a wide-ranging podcast interview with Thomas Jones.
UbuWeb! I’m excited to read this, for certain.
posted by Going To Maine at 9:20 AM on March 31, 2021
posted by Going To Maine at 9:20 AM on March 31, 2021
Oh, the Ubuquity!
posted by y2karl at 9:23 AM on March 31, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by y2karl at 9:23 AM on March 31, 2021 [1 favorite]
Interesting that they mention AAARG but fail to actually link to them? I find AAARG to be much more useful than UbuWeb, but the AAARG website also has not worked properly for me in about two years since I really made my Pi-Hole blocklist extremely severe and I'm not sure what I broke or how to fix it without starting over with an entirely new blocklist.
posted by deadaluspark at 9:36 AM on March 31, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by deadaluspark at 9:36 AM on March 31, 2021 [1 favorite]
Every time ubuweb appears in the media, it reminds me that I need to download my faves because who knows when someone's going to try to nuke it.
posted by phooky at 9:36 AM on March 31, 2021 [4 favorites]
posted by phooky at 9:36 AM on March 31, 2021 [4 favorites]
I'm glad that saving your faves is at least currently cost-effective. While all other PC parts seem to have exploded in price, standard hard drives have stayed about where they were. Meaning storage is extremely cheap because everyone is using streaming services, so fuck it, buy storage, save my own copies.
posted by deadaluspark at 9:38 AM on March 31, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by deadaluspark at 9:38 AM on March 31, 2021 [1 favorite]
Yeah, had some issues with digital losses recently. Very annoying.
posted by Jacen at 10:48 AM on March 31, 2021
posted by Jacen at 10:48 AM on March 31, 2021
Long time WFMU listeners will remember Kenneth Goldsmith as DJ Kenny G (from 1996-2009 or so) whose Hour of Pain show was often very challenging for the average listener.
posted by Ashwagandha at 11:08 AM on March 31, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by Ashwagandha at 11:08 AM on March 31, 2021 [1 favorite]
Difficult listening hour, the spot on your dial for that relentless and impenetrable sound of ... Difficult ... Music?
posted by Grangousier at 11:53 AM on March 31, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by Grangousier at 11:53 AM on March 31, 2021 [2 favorites]
"The book pokes fun at the absurdities of copyright: what if, for instance, the John Cage estate demanded the removal of unauthorised copies of his completely silent piece, 4’33”? (Spoiler: they have.)"
posted by doctornemo at 12:50 PM on March 31, 2021
posted by doctornemo at 12:50 PM on March 31, 2021
ubuweb and pennsound are really great resources that I use all the time.
conceptual poetry can eat a bag of flaming dogshit, though.
posted by what does it eat, light? at 7:10 AM on April 2, 2021
conceptual poetry can eat a bag of flaming dogshit, though.
posted by what does it eat, light? at 7:10 AM on April 2, 2021
I dunno,
Use Ubuweb time though the that resources really poetry Pennsound
of I great flaming eat dogshit conceptual can bag are and all a
kinda works for me.
posted by gusottertrout at 8:03 AM on April 2, 2021
Use Ubuweb time though the that resources really poetry Pennsound
of I great flaming eat dogshit conceptual can bag are and all a
kinda works for me.
posted by gusottertrout at 8:03 AM on April 2, 2021
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