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A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet
BEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it’s become a center of creative...
The songs that inspired, infused, or otherwise infected Tim Maughan’s prescient debut novel Infinite Detail.
In Infinite Detail author Tim Maughan imagines the moments just before the near-future total collapse of the Internet, as well as its aftermath. For our newsletter, he lamented the bygone era of pirate radio in the UK which inspired the novel. We asked him to share the soundscapes that stirred the story’s eerie and all-too-real imagined alternate reality. This is Tim’s soundtrack to the “Before” and “After” of Infinite Detail.