Author: Grafton Tanner

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.

In an essay for The Hong Kong Review of Books, Grafton calls Stranger Things “a window through which the present-shocked can gaze at a clichéd past.”

Check out the essay here.