Der Psychologe Nick Troop ist Freitzeitmusiker und Fan von David Bowie. Wenn er nicht an der University of Hertfordshire lehrt, hat er eigenartige Ideen. Eine davon: der perfekte Bowie Song.

You must look at this amazing artifact out of the BERG cluster in London. I’d like to call this “the greatest design-fiction writing I’ve ever seen,” but (a) it’s not about design, (b) it’s not fictional and (c) it’s not even writing.

This is new. The web has broken a lot of silos between the disciplines in the past 10 years, but this is a new thing that is visibly rising out of that rubble. It’s contemporary creative work which pops on the screen like a web page, but it feels like it wants to be art history, a comic book, an embedded video, a special FX anime movie… It even wants to plan a utopian city.

It’s not possible to read this in the way that texts were once read. Accessing this changes the way you walk in the street and the way you look out the window. This is not a traditional manifesto. There’s something different and hallucinatory and transformative about this. All those links, those correlations of ideas, those connections to real-world projects…. It feels like it ought

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Our friends at GOOD Magazine have posted a neat item here -- Curt Smith, best known as co-founder of the band Tears for Fears, but now an independent, solo artist with a new set of fans, talks about the "musical value of sharing."