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Music, Media Theory, Science Fiction

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Skateboarding, BMX, Hip-hop, Punk Rock, black metal, Godflesh, Donnie ...more

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I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan. I’m an aging BMX and skateboarding zine kid. That’s where I learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. I have since written about music, media, and culture for everything from magazines to blogs and journals to books. I hold a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. As a child, I solved the Rubik’s Cube competitively.

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	Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future 3.71 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Follow for Now by Roy Christopher (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul D. Miller (Contributor), John Brockman (Contributor) 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abandoned Accounts: Poems 2020-2021 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escape Philosophy: Journeys Beyond the Human Body 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fender the Fall 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Medium Picture by Roy Christopher (Goodreads Author), Andrew McLuhan (Foreword) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Follow for Now, Vol. 2 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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THE MEDIUM PICTURE Cover Story

My new book, The Medium Picture, is out today from the University of Georgia Press! To celebrate, here is the photo essay I compiled chronicling how the cover object and image came together.

Many thanks to everyone who preordered this book. You should be getting your copies today! If you haven’t ordered one, it’s available everywhere now!

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“We don’t need to just make room, we need to change the defaults.”
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“When their future is outlawed, the outlaws become the future.”
― Roy Christopher, Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future

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“When the head gets hacked, it’s the heart that is haunted.”
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“We are all perpetually holding ourselves together. Our breath, our blood, our food, our spit, our shit, our thoughts, our attention—all tightly held, all the time. Then at death we let it all out, oozing at once into the earth and gasping at last into the ether.”
― Roy Christopher, Escape Philosophy: Journeys Beyond the Human Body

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“We don’t need to just make room, we need to change the defaults.”
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“When the head gets hacked, it’s the heart that is haunted.”
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“When their future is outlawed, the outlaws become the future.”
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“The singularity of making recordings out of other recordings is neither a rapture we can return from nor a rupture we can repair.”
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