Books

Babbling Corpse

Grafton Tanner

Much of the inspiration for this project came from Tanner’s writing. About Vaporwave, digital ghosts, and nostalgia

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Mark Fisher

A lot of Babbling Corpse ties back to Fisher’s writings. About lost futures, and how we are haunted by futures that never happened.

Specters of Marx

Jacques Derrida

Derrida coined the term hauntology, it is the “return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past, as in the manner of a ghost”. About Marxism, its demise, and subsequently, its specters.

Websites

Web Design Museum

A curated exhibit of over 2000 websites that showcases web design trends between 1991 to 2006.

Olia Lialina’s Work

Co-founder of Geocities Research Institute and keeper of One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Archive.

Writes on New Media, Digital Folklore, Vernacular Web and Human Computer Interaction.