Seeing Through Transparency
...with music, film, video games, books: making the information free. As Lewis Hyde suggests in Common as Air, the righteous datatheft asserted by hackers might be traceable to a civic...
Boy 2 Man
...development, we’re sticking them with the bill. Socialization is not simply a function of maternal attachment, and Mason encounters a culture of toxic masculinity inside and outside the home. No...
Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center present "Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn" (9/20)
...Young presenting a film on refuge and the African-American diaspora inside the historic sanctuary of Bethel Tabernacle AME Church; collective Otabenga Jones & Associates broadcasting music and radical histories from...
You Know You're the Prettiest Girl
...this piece, Nakadate feeds lurid lines about herself to a croaking old man, who dutifully repeats them over footage of Hollywood alleys and apartment complexes. It feels like an effort...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 18
...our lives on nothing. As a longtime archivist of books, music, and assorted life ephemera, I can tell you these days I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of...
Grammar Lessons
...sought to satirize than much of what passes for relevant cinema from the era. Movies like this almost never get included in those categorizations of quality our self-destructing culture is...
Martin Scorsese Started the Fire: Hugo and The Bad Thing
...movie gone from the paradigmatic orphan plot to a Behind the Music documentary? How have we been tricked into thinking the real tragedy of the Bad Thing was that it...
Hi Honey, I'm Home: Makeup and Cohabitation
...his benefit, but for mine: For as I write this, my boyfriend is at work, and I am without a drop of makeup, without shoes, without contact lenses. No music...
Piece of Candy
...— Candy Darling The specter of the “superstar,” that shining icon who transfixes our collective gaze, looms large over contemporary culture. On television, RuPaul’s catty Drag Race reality competition recently...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Eighteen
...sit in a café in the middle of the day. The soft sound of spring rain permeates the raucous batucada percussion of the Brazilian music playing indoors. Eating midday for...
Sunday Reading
...states, 1973 13th-century Yemeni recipe for paper 19th-century Yiddish letter-writing manuals Early 20th-century Turkish music policies Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761...
Sunday Reading
...Empire’s Ways of Knowing - The Mystery of Chapatis The Bumpy Road to May Day Red State Gun Culture Kills Cops Speculation and Criminal Manipulation of Food and...
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Hot Mess
...so coy. Open your ears to their music. Contemporary hip-hop and pop have no time for plausible deniability. Rappers like their status symbols delivered straight-up. There’s no irony or distancing...
Film Premiere: Masha Tupitsyn's Love Sounds (11/4 + 11/5)
...While much emphasis has been placed on the visual iconography of love, with the exception of music very little attention has been given to love as an aural phenomenon since...
Old and damned like a grave
...dinners, star gazing, smiley culture music… shan a shan (clearly homer had access to decent mdma.) are you starting to get the picture? (1) staying young for ever, but staying...
Five Questions with Eileen Myles
...Pater that 'all art constantly aspires towards the conditions of music'? No. That seems rather one note. He's being prescriptive. I don't think he knows what he's talking about. Winter...