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Follow for Now, Volume 2: More Interviews with Friends and Heroes

  • Edited by Roy Christopher

Published on September 16, 2021 by punctum books

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Pages
300 pages
Languages
English
Dimensions
5⤫8 in.
ISBN (Paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-953035-80-6 (Paperback)
ISBN (PDF)
ISBN: 978-1-953035-81-3 (PDF)
DOI
DOI: 10.53288/0331.1.00(opens in new tab)
LCCN
LCCN: 2021945292
BISAC subject codes
BISAC: LAN008000, MUS031000
Thema subject codes
THEMA: 6RJ, AVP, DNP

Follow for Now, Vol. 2 picks up and pushes beyond the first volume(opens in new tab) with a more diverse set of interviews. The intent of the first collection was to bring together voices from across disciplines and to cross-pollinate ideas. At the time, social media wasn’t crisscrossing all of the lines and certain categories held a bit more sway. Volume 2 aims not only to pick up where* Follow for Now, Vol. 1* left off but also to tighten its approach with deeper subjects and more timely interviews.

Featuring conversations with thinkers Carla Nappi, Rita Raley, Dominic Pettman, Ian Bogost, Mark Dery, Douglas Rushkoff, and Dave Allen, and musicians Tyler, The Creator, Matthew Shipp, Sean Price, Rammellzee, and Sadat X, as well as writers Ytasha L. Womack, Chris Kraus, Pat Cadigan, Bob Stephenson, Simon Critchley, Simon Reynolds, Malcolm Gladwell, and William Gibson, Follow for Now, Vol. 2 is another critical cross-section of the now.

Contents

  1. Frontmatter (1–12)

    Roy Christopher

  2. Preface: O Bother, Why Art Thou? (13–17)

    Roy Christopher

  3. Carla Nappi: Historical Friction (20–32)

    Roy Christopher

  4. Kristen Gallerneaux: Unattended Consequences (34–45)

    Roy Christopher

  5. Dominic Pettman: Human Matters (46–51)

    Roy Christopher

  6. Rita Raley: Tactical Humanities (52–56)

    Roy Christopher

  7. Jodi Dean: Of Crowds and Collectives (58–63)

    Alfie Bown

  8. Gareth Branwyn: Borg Like Me (64–71)

    Roy Christopher

  9. Ian Bogost: Worthwhile Dilemmas (72–81)

    Roy Christopher

  10. Mark Dery: Nothing’s Shocking (82–88)

    Roy Christopher

  11. Brian Eno: Strange Overtones (90–97)

    Steven Johnson

  12. Zizi Papacharissi: A Networked Self (98–103)

    Roy Christopher

  13. Douglas Rushkoff: The User’s Dilemma (104–108)

    Roy Christopher

  14. danah boyd: Privacy = Context + Control (110–113)

    Roy Christopher

  15. Dave Allen: Every Force Evolves a Form (114–126)

    Roy Christopher

  16. Juice Aleem: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (128–133)

    Roy Christopher

  17. Labtekwon: Margin Walker (134–138)

    Roy Christopher

  18. M. Sayyid: The Other Side (140–144)

    Roy Christopher

  19. Shabazz Palaces: A New Refutation (146–151)

    Roy Christopher

  20. dälek: Build and Destroy (152–156)

    Roy Christopher

  21. Matthew Shipp: Heavy Meta (158–163)

    Roy Christopher

  22. Tyler, The Creator: The Odd Future Is Now (164–168)

    Timothy Baker

  23. Tricia Rose: Warrior Soul (170–174)

    Roy Christopher

  24. Sean Price: Bless the M.I.C. (176–179)

    Roy Christopher

  25. Rammellzee: The Wrath of the Math (180–185)

    Chuck Galli

  26. Cadence Weapon: Check the Technique (186–189)

    Roy Christopher

  27. El-P: Wake Up. Time to Die. (190–198)

    Roy Christopher

  28. Sadat X: My Protocol Is Know-It-All (200–203)

    Roy Christopher

  29. Ytasha L. Womack: Dance to the Future (206–214)

    Roy Christopher

  30. Bob Stephenson: Bit by Bit (216–219)

    Roy Christopher

  31. Pat Cadigan: Eyes on the Skies (220–225)

    Roy Christopher

  32. Mish Barber-Way: Flour Power (226–230)

    Roy Christopher

  33. Chris Kraus: Wildly Contradictory (232–235)

    Roy Christopher

  34. Simon Critchley: The Skull beneath the Skin (236–241)

    Alfie Bown

  35. Clay Tarver: Gone Glimmering (242–247)

    Roy Christopher

  36. Nick Harkaway: A Dynastic Succession of Trouble (248–255)

    Roy Christopher

  37. Simon Reynolds: Erase and Start It Again (256–262)

    Roy Christopher, Alex Burns

  38. Malcolm Gladwell: Epidemic Proportions (264–267)

    Roy Christopher

  39. William Gibson: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines (268–295)

    Kodwo Eshun

Biographies

  • Roy Christopher

    (Editor)

    Roy Christopher is an aging BMX and skateboarding zine kid. That’s where he learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. He has since written about music, media, and culture for everything from self-published zines and personal blogs to national magazines and academic journals. He most recently contributed to Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production (punctum books, 2019). He was assistant editor of Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (MIT Press, 2008) and self-published the first volume of Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes (Well-Red Bear, 2007). He holds a PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book is Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future (Repeater, 2019).

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Genres

  • Media+Technology
  • Sound+Noise

Keywords

  • hip-hop
  • interviews
  • media
  • technology
  • writing