Sunday Reading
...was there to organize it" "the emoticon scheme makes us shoppers for new, bonus feelings à la carte" “punk lore has supplanted Beat lore for a new generation” “hipster” is...
The Crimson Ghost
...skull is the Crimson Ghost, a title taken from the mid-century film serial from which the punk group The Misfits repurposed it as a logo. The Crimson Ghost is one...
Scenes Resembling Civil War
...anti-bourgeois tendencies that emerged in 1968. It developed haphazardly as a synthesis of influences (the squatter movement, radical feminist and environmental tendencies, the punk scene and the praxis of Italy’s...
Sunday Reading
...on Punk and Fashion from the Met Gala Cat Imagery in the Suffrage Movement Fuck You: A magazine of the arts The Double Life Of A Gay Dodger Depression, Part...
Sunday Reading
...think I am more punk than anyone else I have met in life.” “Don’t use Waze in Jerusalem.” "No check-in desk, just plainclothes staff members milling around the lobby holding...
Death by Association
Calling on “black cyberpunk,” Roy Christopher’s book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future bestows the genre with a ghostly pallor, risking its political potential
Un(der)seen Cinema: Born in Flames
...and female-fronted punk and awesome scenes of New York in the 80s. Not to mention Katheryn Bigelow starring as a feminist newspaper editor, at the very beginning of her journey...
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
...Daft Punk's "Make Love," which you write about falling asleep to in Love Dog after a night out with X. It's like the book was surrounding me. When you jump...
The Birth of the Uncool: Yacht Rock and Libidinal Subversion
...punk, postpunk and even proto-postpunk, spurring drastic retrenchments. Yacht rock was an ameliorative adaptation to the 1970s malaise, not a cause of it. The Jacobin accuses yacht rock of co-optation,...
It Gets Worse
...including Earl Sweatshirt, Hodgy Beats, Mike G, Left Brain, Domo Genesis, Syd the Kid, Frank Ocean, Taco Bennet, and Jasper Dolphin, the group, with their propensity for punk-inspired beats and...
A Very Long Winter
...but things were shifting fast. The Antifa and punk milieus generally became patriotic right-wingers. Anarchists weren’t spared from this dynamic, many of whom grew sympathetic to the “autonomous nationalists” of...
Revenge of the Thanatoids
...— or CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective — if you haven't already heard of them, first surfaced with the '90s anarcho-punk zine Inside Front. From early on, the group insisted on being...
Sunday Reading
...Propaganda, Lies and Suppression of Constitutional Rights by the Oakland Mayor’s Office, DA and OPD Nothing Was Desirable: A Review Of ‘Punk In Africa’ Palestine Diaries A Proposal...
My Norm is More Normal Than Yours: Academic Tweeting and Loose Fish
...the academy” convo. It may be that I just invented the scene, that I conjured up the image of an appropriately cantankerous old professor yelling at a bunch of punk...
Beautiful Music
...variations. Like this amazing punk version.) Two notes: 1) I do not necessarily endorse the messages in any of these songs—surprisingly, there were no songs titled "Hey Women's Relationship to...
Sunday Reading
...world is too at ease with conventional weapons" "punk was born in the toilet and now it’s at the Met" "few people doubt reality besides sociologists and the socially disgruntled"...