From Culture Machine, a special issue on Recordings, including an introduction; Eugene Thacker (Georgia Tech): Pulse Demons; Greg Hainge (Queensland): Vinyl is Dead, Long Live Vinyl: The Work of Recording and Mourning in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Paul Hegarty (Cork): The Hallucinatory Life of Tape; Jerome Hansen (Sussex): Mapping the Studio (Fat Chance Matmos): Sonic Culture, Visual Arts and the Artist's Studio; Gary Genosko (Lakehead): 8 Track Rhapsody; and Dan Hays on Painting in the Light of Digital Reproduction. Obsolete to whom? Despite declining sales, albums are not going anywhere — as an object or an idea.

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