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93-97 Rewind - Robin Mackay
A Mackay retrospective that rewinds the 1993-97 period as a sonic and conceptual formation rather than a nostalgic scene memoir.
Archive condition
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Core idea
The page argues that rewind is not nostalgia but an active method for recovering how music scenes generated ideas, intensities, and new temporal orientations.
Retrospection becomes analytic here. Scene memory is used to map relations among jungle, theory, and the public culture of futurity without flattening them into one slogan.
That matters because the sonic section depends on afterlife writing as well as primary scene documents. This page shows how memory can still transmit method.
How to read this text
Read for how the rewind frame structures the argument. The retrospective method is part of what the page is teaching.
Track where memory becomes conceptual rather than anecdotal. That is where the page belongs in this section.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 3
Despite the importance of the episode in my own life, at the time of republishing the Writings, in the wake of Mark Fisher’s death, I had no expectation that it would mean anything to anyone else. ← PREVIOUS NEXT → ROBIN MACKAY
Definition · paragraph 9
Hybrid and bastardised, jungle miscegenated, diagonalised and united not through common humanity but always by way of the alien and the abstract. To a large extent, and from increasingly ‘dark’ perspectives as the 90s rolled toward the millenium, the scene pursued the collective construction of what Eshun would call ‘sonic fiction’. Remember: no hundreds of online music magazines revealing the real names of the producers, where they lived, their favourite sandwich, and a picture
History · paragraph 12
93–97 Rewind – Robin Mackay http://readthis.wtf/writing/9397rewind/[3/30/2023 4:04:26 PM] RRobin Urbanomic · Jungle 93 – 97
History · paragraph 9
93–97 Rewind – Robin Mackay http://readthis.wtf/writing/9397rewind/[3/30/2023 4:04:26 PM] In pop music, new aesthetic phenomena always temporalize, setting individuals in different relations to time. Pop has—at least until recently, but that’s a different question—always served to place the last generation, behind in time.
History · paragraph 9
93–97 Rewind – Robin Mackay http://readthis.wtf/writing/9397rewind/[3/30/2023 4:04:26 PM] In pop music, new aesthetic phenomena always temporalize, setting individuals in different relations to time.
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.