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Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts BOTY_2025 or the time-honored royal pathIn the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the gaps inherent in the electronic media that pervade our lives. Vaporwave is an infant musical micro genre that foregrounds the horror of electronic media's ability to appear as media theorist Jeffrey Sconce terms it "haunted." Experimental musicians such as