Babbling Corpse Tanner's first book,
Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts, was written in 2016 for
Zer0 Books Publishers. Tanner analyzed
vaporwave, a genre of
lo-fi music based on internet aesthetics and 1980s
consumerism, through the lens of
Mark Fisher's
capitalist realism as a response to capitalism in a
post-September 11th world saturated with culture.
Babbling Corpse was generally well received by reviewers. Writing for
Broken Pencil, Joel Vaughan claimed the book is best when dealing with aesthetics, but "loses a little steam when diving into the mud of theory," and vaporwave magazine
Private Suite Magazine featured a review of the book as a cover issue. Following the English release of Tanner's third book,
The Hours Have Lost Their Clock,
Babbling Corpse received a 2022 Spanish translation by Cristóbal Durán for Ediciones Holobionte, titled
Un cadáver balbuceante. El Vaporwave y los fantasmas electrónicos. Eduardo Almiñana of
Culturplaza praised the book for portraying
hyperconsumerism as a sickness of culture that vaporwave fights against, stating: "tendencies like
YouTube Poop and many other forms of expression that include the appropriation and alteration with few means have flourished like ephemeral mushrooms in the shadows of artificial fires and in the medium of a widespread poltergeist." == Views ==