music – Liminal Wordsmith

October 20, 2025

Style as Survival

Richard Lanham’s Style: An Anti-Textbook argues that writing is never just about what we say. It is about how we choose to say it. The word “style” doesn’t mean decoration. It means self-preservation. Every writer, whether they admit it or not, hides behind the rhythm of their sentences, the patterns of their punctuation, the voice

Electracy on Stage: The 1975 and the New Aesthetic

When thinking about Justin Hodgson’s ideas about the post-digital world, my mind immediately goes to The 1975. Digital tech is not separate from daily life anymore. It surrounds us all the time, and we usually only notice it when it glitches or becomes overwhelming. McLuhan’s “the medium is the message” and Ulmer’s idea of electracy

Everything in Its Right Place

Marshall McLuhan once said, “the medium is the message.” What he meant is that what really matters about media isn’t just the content but the atmosphere it creates around us. Radiohead has been shaping those kinds of atmospheres for decades. Take Everything in Its Right Place, the opener on Kid A. The words cycle like