Because I am currently listening to one of these (the first one), here is a short list of three fantastic albums from 2025 that I have been listening to recently. The first two of them might not have had the luck/infrastructure to reach a bigger audience. Not all of| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
There are at least three abandoned K.N.R.U. blog posts that have tried to find a window into talking about the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished mega-work in which he uses the shopping arcades of early 20th century Paris as a jump-off point to try describing... something. The| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
In Utopia as Replication, Fredric Jameson makes a spicy argument for looking at Walmart as a utopia. It is a pretty readable essay as far as Jameson goes. He of course isn't suggesting that Walmart as it actually exists is any kind of utopia, but uses it as an example| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
Last week I read A Primer on Utopian Philosophy by Jon Greenaway. It’s a great, user-friendly introduction to philosopher Ernst Bloch's ideas about utopia that resonated with a lot of the work I've been doing and posting here recently. In particular, reading it right after putting out the Music| The Komoy Noise Research Unit