"The Empowering Style of Cassette Tapes"

This weekend I read "High Bias," Marc Masters' terrific new history of the cultural impact of the cassette recorder

I've always thought cassette culture had a distinctly early-internet-like-vibe

Permissionless, inexpensive, amateur-propelled, etc

My essay on it all: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-empowering-style-of-cassette-tapes-e3a620590d42

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