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...
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?...
red dots
...misogyny in philosophy and culture, it is precisely the period that slices through the figure to produce a question: a question of being, a question of equality. It is precisely...
Bad Romance
...are shocking, transfixing and emotionally exhausting—in a good way. The first of these galleries is a gilded mirrored room, with gothic light fixtures and creepy mood music. The first dress...
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...
Laurie Penny's "Unspeakable Things"
...tragic game of trying to be what our culture expects of women—thin, pretty, docile—and isn’t it a shame that they don’t recognize their own potential? They wouldn’t be feminists, they...
The Sentimentality of Evil
The Zone of Interest can be understood in the context of recent scholarship on family abolition, white supremacy, and domestic labor.
Writing Like a Partisan
Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes offers insight into contemporary Italian fascism
Interview: Tizz Wall, Domme, Oakland
...our computers out, listening to music and talking and gabbing about whatever. That’s when we’ll all put on our makeup and do our hair. If we’re struggling and can’t get...
Disappearing Shanghai
...All photography is a record of a lost past. Photography does not share music’s ability to be fully remade each time it is presented, nor does it have...
Off-Brand
...nor steal but are magically “gifted.” Anyone can get free music or free food (provided their standards are low enough), and art objects are worth nothing unless they’re purchased. Only...
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #47
...backwards, like starting a video of an atrocity at the end, and running it backwards to the beginning. [it’s like the joke about listening to country music backwards: you get...
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...
Sunday Reading, July 2, 2023
...since the Great Depression, and due to the modest policy response, “it seems unlikely that US income concentration will fall much in the coming years.” Swedish electronic music group The...
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...
I'm Not a Philosopher (But I Play One in The Movies)
...melancholy underneath Chomsky’s unwillingness to discuss his wife’s death. Mortality hangs over the entire project like that; Gondry himself, once an enfant terrible of the music video world, is just...