{"title":"Robin Mackay","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"by-the-north-sea","title":"By the North Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe third release on Flatlines, Hyperdub’s sub label for audio essays and sonic fiction, is \u003ci\u003eBy the North Sea\u003c\/i\u003e by Robin\nMackay, philosopher and founder of the UK publisher Urbanomic.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe project is a sonic exploration of the perplexities of time, disappearance, and loss, channelled through the fictions\nof H.P. Lovecraft, the speculative mythos of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru), and the ghost of Dunwich -\na once prosperous English trading city now lost almost wholly to the sea.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed by Mackay as a “radio play afflicted by ontological rot”, the audio essay interweaves field recordings,\nrecovered video footage, voice performance, and original music. The voices of Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, actors\nPeter Marinker and Phyllida Nash, Angus Carlyle, Lisa Blanning, diver Stuart Bacon, and Morgan Caines of Dunwich\nMuseum, loop and twist around Mackay’s narration in a dense, multi-levelled sonic hyperstition that lends itself to\nrepeated listening.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMackay began writing \u003ci\u003eBy the North Sea\u003c\/i\u003e in 2017 in the week immediately following the death of Mark Fisher, returning\nto the archives of a project that he and Mark had embarked upon in 2001, with the themes of the original ‘Dunwich\nProject’ taking on a new character in the wake of Fisher’s death, and becoming a device for asking questions about\nfinality, about things that could now never happen, about the possibility of continuing, and about a distanced\nfriendship marked by depressive absences and constantly deferred promises to spend time together.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe CD comes housed in a 48-page hardback casebound sleeve containing the text and images from the audio essay.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flatlines","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50532622795083,"sku":"2212614","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/FLAT003_packshot_x1400_2e935765_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728125642"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/robin-mackay.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}