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...
Choose Your Own Adventure
...cuisine, world music, ethnic chic, etc, while the black other is pushed further away. Personally I am glad people are relatively open about their racial sexual preferences. It allows me...
I'm Not Ready
...announcement, bringing to mind the first moments of falling in love with a band via a Behind the Music special or radio single. The language of readiness reveals the lack...
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...
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...
Alone Again Or
...Larry David to Lena Dunham Heti, to her credit, is quite funny when she chooses to be. , bleakness and despair are ultimately punch lines, complete with credit music that...
European Pie
...and the city awakens in a hangover? What happens, as is the title of the song of Azerbaijan’s entry sung by Sabina Babayeva this year, when the music dies?...
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...
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...
The Art of Memoir: Outside is Trouble
...world another hurdle obstructing the course of romance, and when desires are left to be sated on the residuals of the disappeared object — or when language, culture, class, and...
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...
So You Want to Be a #Longreads Superstar
...stars are expected not just to make music but to be worthy investments of libidinal energy. Jon Hamm is bothered that people keep looking at his dick but on some...
The Day After Yesterday, Part 1: The Bad Omen
...that our suspicions are confirmed: the bee's sting was coming from inside the mouth. The music, meanwhile, will not shut up, swelling with zithers and lush cello ad infinitum every...
En passant
...also known for earnest, "raw" emotionality that gains an aura of authenticity through amateur production values. In music, technology has even developed to the point where crappy production values is...
Art, Work, and Refusal
...am certainly strong, but I am not comfortable with silence in this situation. I refuse to be a silent artist regarding issues that affect my livelihood and the culture of...
The New Inquiry Vol. 2 Release Screening and Panel: Livestream
...the run up to Occupy Wall Street's declared May 1 general strike, we've assembled a panel to discuss the film, pop music, and revolutionary politics featuring: Cosmo Bjorkenheim, a New...