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Reference is meant to be read sideways. Below are the subjects covered so far, and a few threads through them — the small, early version of the subject maps.
Threads
Each step is a subject page. Start anywhere and keep going until you have left the question you arrived with.
Why a house costs what it costs
Start with the shortage and you end up at land value and council finance.
How jungle got its rhythm
A genre assembled from a borrowed drum break, a licensing crackdown and cheap hardware.
From a switch to the internet
Each layer hides the one below it until a message can cross the world.
All subjects
17 subjects with something published against them.
- Breakbeat hardcore2 pieces
- Computing2 pieces
What computers are actually doing underneath the interface.
- Electronic music2 pieces
Machines, records and scenes, mostly British.
- Housing2 pieces
How homes get built, who builds them, and why Britain builds so few.
- Land2 pieces
Ownership, value and the question of who captures it.
- Local government2 pieces
Councils, their powers and the money they no longer have.
- Planning2 pieces
The permission system that decides what can be built and where.
- Rave culture2 pieces
Parties, sound systems, licensing law and the people caught between them.
- Sampling2 pieces
The technology and the law of using recorded sound as raw material.
- Bristol1 piece
Subjects with a Bristol thread running through them.
- Drum & bass1 piece
- Electronics1 piece
- Ethics1 piece
- Inequality1 piece
How wealth and opportunity are distributed, and by which mechanisms.
- Jungle1 piece
- Networking1 piece
How separate machines are persuaded to behave like one network.
- Philosophy1 piece