Author: Grafton Tanner

Grafton sat down with Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front, a podcast that covers conflict journalism across the world, to talk about nostalgia and capitalism. Listen here.

Grafton argues that the entrepreneurial ideology peddled by motivational speakers and tech companies has given rise to a culture of nostalgia. Read the essay over at The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Grafton’s band Superpuppet has released their debut EP, Museum, on Outer Worlds Records. Purchase the EP here or stream it on Apple Music and Spotify.

Grafton sits down with Joe Silva, host of the Georgia Public Broadcasting radio program Just Off The Radar, for an interview about his favorite vaporwave tracks. Check out the episode here.

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.