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“Produced in 1973, “Television Delivers People” is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts itself subtly on the populace through “entertainments,” for the benefit of those in power-the corporations that mantain and profit from the status quo. Television emerges as little more than a insidious sponsor for the corporate engines of the world.”

 

The latest upload from our Lumpen TLVSN Video jam:

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LUMPEN – TLVSN Mahjong Underground Concert from lumpen on Vimeo.

Here’s a clip of t.raumschmiere playing at Weekend Records and Soap around 2002 or 2003. Wicker Park in the early 2000s was still a mecca of sorts for the avant guarde set and people who actually made things. Weekend was the place to find the best electronic music in the city.

T. RAUMSCHMIERE @ Weekend Records and Soap from lumpen on Vimeo.

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lum·pen adj. 1. Of or relating to dispossessed, often displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class with which they would ordinarily be identified: lumpen intellectuals unable to find work in their fields. A member the underclass, especially the lowest social stratum. 2. Vulgar or common; plebeian