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Far Side Virtual, the Glossary

Far Side Virtual is a studio album by American electronic musician James Ferraro, released on October 25, 2011 by Hippos in Tanks.^[1]

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Hippos in Tanks albums
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Psychedelic pop albums
Works about consumerism
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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Bomb (magazine)

Bomb (stylized in all caps as BOMB) is an American arts magazine edited by artists and writers, published quarterly in print and daily online.

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Brave New World

Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932.

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City-building game

A city-building game, or town-building game, is a genre of simulation video game where players act as the overall planner and leader of a city or town, looking down on it from above, and being responsible for its growth and management strategy.

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Claude Debussy

(Achille) Claude Debussy (|group.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.

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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays of status.

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Culture theory

Culture theory is the branch of comparative anthropology and semiotics that seeks to define the heuristic concept of culture in operational and/or scientific terms.

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Dan Deacon

Daniel Deacon (born August 28, 1981) is an American composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Dave Grusin

Robert David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader.

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Dazed

Dazed (Dazed & Confused until February 2014) is a bi-monthly British lifestyle magazine founded in 1991.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound, sometimes abbreviated to DiS, was a UK-based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Easy listening

Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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Elevator music

Elevator music (also known as Muzak, piped music, or lift music) is a type of background music played in elevators, in rooms where many people come together for reasons other than listening to music, and during telephone calls when placed on hold.

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Elle (magazine)

Elle (stylized in all caps) is a worldwide women's magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, and society and lifestyle.

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Extended play

An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.

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Fact (UK magazine)

Fact is a music publication that launched in the UK in 2003.

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Found object

A found object (a calque from the French objet trouvé), or found art, is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function.

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GarageBand

GarageBand is a software application by Apple for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS devices that allows users to create music or podcasts.

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Google Street View

Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world.

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Great Pacific garbage patch

The Great Pacific garbage patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific garbage patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean.

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Grime music

Grime is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in London in the early 2000s.

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Hellscape

A hellscape is a harsh environment, an unpleasant place, or a scene thought to resemble hell.

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Hippos in Tanks

Hippos in Tanks was a record label founded in 2010 by Barron Machat and Travis Woolsey.

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Hyperreality

Hyperreality is a concept in post-structuralism that refers to the process of the evolution of notions of reality, leading to a cultural state of confusion between signs and symbols invented to stand in for reality, and direct perceptions of consensus reality.

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Inhale C-4 $$$$$

Inhale C-4 $$$$$ is a mixtape by American electronic musician James Ferraro under the alias BEBETUNE$, released for free on December 14, 2011. Far Side Virtual and Inhale C-4 $$$$$ are James Ferraro albums.

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Interactivity

Across the many fields concerned with interactivity, including information science, computer science, human-computer interaction, communication, and industrial design, there is little agreement over the meaning of the term "interactivity", but most definitions are related to interaction between users and computers and other machines through a user interface.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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IPad

The iPad is a brand of iOS- and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple, first introduced on January 27, 2010.

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James Ferraro

James Ferraro (born November 7, 1986) is an American experimental musician, producer, composer and contemporary artist.

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Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard (– 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies.

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Kitsch

Kitsch (loanword from German) is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous or of banal taste.

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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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List of Coca-Cola slogans

The Coca-Cola Company has used various advertising slogans since its inception in 1886.

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Lo-fi music

Lo-fi (also typeset as lofi or low-fi; short for low fidelity) is a music or production quality in which elements usually regarded as imperfections in the context of a recording or performance are present, sometimes as a deliberate choice.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Markus Giesler

Markus Giesler is a consumer sociologist and Professor of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University.

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Maximalism

In the arts, maximalism, a reaction against minimalism, is an aesthetic of excess.

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Melanie Griffith

Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Microgenre

A microgenre is a specialized or niche genre.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.

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Muzak

Muzak is an American brand of background music played in retail stores and other public establishments.

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Noise music

Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise.

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Oneohtrix Point Never

Daniel Lopatin (born July 25, 1982), best known as Oneohtrix Point Never or OPN, is an American experimental electronic music producer, composer, singer, and songwriter.

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Pastiche

A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, music, or architecture that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.

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Pazz & Jop

Pazz & Jop was an annual poll of top musical releases, compiled by American newspaper The Village Voice and created by music critic Robert Christgau.

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Performance art

Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants.

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Phil Collins

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.

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Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.

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Post-structuralism

Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of power.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism.

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Protest song

A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for protest and social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs (or songs connected to current events).

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Red Bull Music Academy

The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a world-traveling series of music workshops and festivals that was founded in 1998 by Red Bull GmbH.

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Retrofuturism

Retrofuturism (adjective retrofuturistic or retrofuture) is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era.

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Ringtone

A ringtone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming telephone call.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Rush (band)

Rush was a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto in 1968 that primarily comprised Geddy Lee (vocals, bass guitar, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitar) and Neil Peart (drums, percussion).

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Ryan Trecartin

Ryan Trecartin (born 1981) is an American artist and filmmaker currently based in Athens, Ohio.

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San Francisco Examiner

The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and has been published since 1863.

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Seattle Weekly

The Seattle Weekly is an alternative biweekly distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Second Life

Second Life is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multi-user online virtual world.

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SimCity

SimCity is an open-ended city-building video game franchise originally designed by Will Wright.

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Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist and author who began his career at Melody Maker in the mid-1980s.

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Simulacrum

A simulacrum (simulacra or simulacrums, from Latin simulacrum, meaning "likeness, semblance") is a representation or imitation of a person or thing.

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Single (music)

In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album or LP record, typically one or two tracks.

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Sixth Avenue

Sixth Avenue, also known as Avenue of the Americas, is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown".

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Skype

Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Smartphone

A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

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Soft rock

Soft rock (also known as light rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions.

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Sound design

Sound design is the art and practice of creating soundtracks for a variety of needs.

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Speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin (stylized in all caps as SPIN) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.

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Starbucks

Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Still life

A still life (still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then.

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The Fader

The Fader is a magazine established in 1999 as an outlet for Cornerstone Agency, a marketing and public relations firm established by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen.

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The National (Abu Dhabi)

The National is a UAE state-owned English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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The Quietus

The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine founded by John Doran and Luke Turner.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Wire (magazine)

The Wire (or simply Wire) is a British music magazine publishing out of London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982.

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Tiny Mix Tapes

Tiny Mix Tapes (also TMT or tinymixtapes) is an online music and film webzine that focuses primarily on new music and related news.

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Vaporwave

Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, and became well-known in 2015.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.

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Video art

Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium.

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world.

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Virtual world

A virtual world (also called a virtual space) is a computer-simulated environment which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create a personal avatar and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities, and communicate with others.

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The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is the website of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Side_Virtual

Also known as FARSIDEVIRTUAL.

, Melanie Griffith, Metacritic, Microgenre, Microsoft Windows, MIDI, Muzak, Noise music, Oneohtrix Point Never, Pastiche, Pazz & Jop, Performance art, Phil Collins, Philip Glass, Pitchfork (website), Post-structuralism, Postmodernism, Protest song, Red Bull Music Academy, Retrofuturism, Ringtone, Romantic comedy, Ronald Reagan, Rush (band), Ryan Trecartin, San Francisco Examiner, Seattle Weekly, Second Life, SimCity, Simon Reynolds, Simulacrum, Single (music), Sixth Avenue, Skype, Slate (magazine), Smartphone, Soft rock, Sound design, Speech synthesis, Spin (magazine), Starbucks, Stereogum, Still life, The Fader, The National (Abu Dhabi), The Quietus, The Village Voice, The Wire (magazine), Tiny Mix Tapes, Vaporwave, Vice (magazine), Video art, Virtual reality, Virtual world, World Socialist Web Site.

Far Side Virtual, the Glossary

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See also

Hippos in Tanks albums

James Ferraro albums

Psychedelic pop albums

Works about consumerism

Works about hyperreality

References