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Towards a Transcendental Deduction of Jungle (Interview) (Part 1) - Robin Macka
A long Robin Mackay interview that reconstructs jungle as a core route into Warwick-era futurity, scene formation, and temporal experimentation.
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Core idea
The interview argues that jungle was not merely part of the soundtrack to the scene. It was a method for thinking time, breakage, and futurity at the heart of the Warwick atmosphere.
Retrospective interview form lets memory, music criticism, and scene-history feed into one another. Jungle becomes legible as both a sonic practice and a conceptual training ground.
That matters because this page ties the archive's musical and philosophical lines together unusually clearly. It helps explain how the CCRU's sense of futurity was learned through sound.
How to read this text
Read the opening scene-setting and the passages on music's importance to Warwick before following the longer retrospective reflections.
Watch where jungle is treated as a temporal method rather than as a genre label. That is the key to the interview.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 2
Topics: ***Collapse, CCRU, Interview, Jungle, Mark Fisher, Music, Nick Land, Sound, SWITCH, Timestretching, Virtual Futures, Warwick University This is the first part of a long conversation about Warwick in the 90s, CCRU, and the importance of music (particularly jungle) to that scene. The interview was conducted by Christopher Haworth as part of his AHRC-funded research project, Music and the Internet: Towards a Digital Sociology of Music.
Definition · paragraph 2
Topics: ***Collapse, CCRU, Interview, Jungle, Mark Fisher, Music, Nick Land, Sound, SWITCH, Timestretching, Virtual Futures, Warwick University This is the first part of a long conversation about Warwick in the 90s, CCRU, and the importance of music (particularly jungle) to that scene.
Definition · paragraph 63
I remember being at a party and talking to Nick, and Nick scribbling in his notebook about this. And, being dedicated Kantians, we were like, ‘It’s the transcendental deduction of jungle.’ But yeah, I think what’s interesting to me once more is this cybernetic/culture thing: how it’s come from both of those angles. The experience of the music enables you to start thinking in certain ways, but you can also do a theoretical analysis of what’s going on inside the sound that you can then transfer to other realms.
History · paragraph 27
Towards a Transcendental Deduction of Jungle (Interview) (Part 1) – Robin Mackay http://readthis.wtf/writing/towards-a-transcendental-deduction-of-jungle-interview-part-1/[3/30/2023 4:05:26 PM] directionless and stifled by being at Warwick for too long and I was not really clear about what CCRU was doing, where that was going, or what I was doing.
History · paragraph 7
Towards a Transcendental Deduction of Jungle (Interview) (Part 1) – Robin Mackay http://readthis.wtf/writing/towards-a-transcendental-deduction-of-jungle-interview-part-1/[3/30/2023 4:05:26 PM] In addition to this, Warwick was one of the first places to have a philosophy and literature course, so there were also people who were studying things like Blanchot, Deleuze and Guattari’s Proust or Kafka, but also science fiction, cyberpunk, various things like that.
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.