Author: Grafton Tanner

Grafton aligns public intellectual Jordan Peterson with the very ideology he rails against: postmodernism. Read the critique over at Merion West.

Grafton’s band Superpuppet have announced the release of their debut EP: Museum is out on October 12, 2018 via Outer Worlds Records. The band (Tanner, Blake Lewis, Justin Belk, and Michael Buice) recorded the three-track EP in 2011. Listen to their single, “Analogarhythm,” below.

Pre-Order Museum on iTunes and Amazon.

Grafton targets the Silicon Valley technocrats who believe more ethical technology will solve the problems of social media. Read the essay at The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Grafton reviews Terry Tapp’s 2017 memoir, A Serf’s Journal (Zero Books, 2017), for The Hong Kong Review of Books. Read the review here.

Brazilian music site Floga-se interviewed Grafton about vaporwave, digital media, and nostalgia. You can read it here.

Grafton’s poems, “Curtain Call” and “Where the Deer Go,” are featured in the second issue of Mesmer, a journal dedicated to poetry and visual art. You can download the issue for free here.

 

Grafton dissects Disney’s long and complicated relationship with tobacco. Read it at We Are The Mutants.

Galaad Wilgos interviewed Grafton for his essay on the history of vaporwave. Read it over at Slate.fr. 

Grafton reflects on The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber, discussing what it means to be radical and how to go about being so. Read the review here.

On this special episode of Discourse Collective, Hunter (@copcemetary), Malloy (@mmaloyboy) and Sergey (@NovemberBrav0) interview Grafton about his book Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts, examining vapor as a phenomenon and an aesthetic, how it reflects the haunted culture we live in, and what it says about our politics and philosophy.