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Jarvis Cocker has written a manifesto for a new age of creativity, which involves living a life offline.
The piece, which was written for and published via Another Man, looks at a “new” prehistoric approach to finding peace and total silence.
Cocker explores the idea of being away from all phone reception, wi-fi, TV and radio, and shunning all outside influences, facing a “blank canvas”.
“The universe is random: only man tries to give it a pattern,” he shares. “To make it mean something.”
He goes on to reference The Beatles, writing: “Is it a coincidence that the club that gave birth to the most significant and influential musical group of the past century was called ‘The Cavern’?”
Cocker writes that all the best nightclubs are in dark and dingy basements because they remind us of being back in the cave, where it all began, where our family once lived, and where we should all return in order to escape the “endless, meaningless jabbering that distracts you from who you really are and what you really want to do.”
Visit Another Man to read Jarvis Cocker’s full Nu-Troglodyte Manifesto.
Last month, Cocker compared Pulp to a “dormant volcano”, when asked what the status of the band was and if there were any new shows or material on the horizon. He went on to say: "Everything to do with Pulp or to do with me happens at such a glacial pace, that's it hard to tell whether anything's happening or not, but when it does, the whole geography of the planet is changed."
