Five Questions with Elaine Equi
...more sympathetic to the problems writers face and better able to evaluate a literary work. Music has always seemed infinitely more difficult to me, but that’s probably because no one...
Day Residue
...ultra of the utopian society gone horribly wrong; as she searches for “resistance” in the music of the People’s Temple, the looming dread of what would come seeps out of...
Arms and the Man
...culture to the present order of knowledge. And a particularly insidious manifestation of this present order of knowledge is the liberalism that overwhelmingly dominates popular discourse around the execution of...
A Saudi Arabia Reader
...the Arabs, 13 November 1961† †Quoted in Robert Vitalis, America's Kingdom, p. 127. In 2013 I designed and taught a course on the history, literature, and visual culture of contemporary...
Hunger as an Instrument of Social Control
...they are free members of society; and they are — attention to food and drink, exercise, education, music and morals, combined with steady industry. Holidays and free alcohol might well...
Midwest
...seek to evoke the special quality of a place, and explore the links between weather, landscape, culture, and affect. + SS: Recently, I was reading Space and Place by the...
Native Regard
...is society where none intrudes, / by the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not Man the less, but Nature more. --Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Too Foreign
...in her afterword: “when to prioritize the music and when the meaning.” Lispector’s Portuguese is, we are told by both translators, a sonorous web of repetitions, intent more on establishing...
Private Life Drama
...of late-night dancing, where to “some insane European music that contained centrifugal forces… almost every man present asked [Moscow] to dance, finding in her something that had been lost in...
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
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...
The Lights Are On but Nobody's Home
...As the number of data sources proliferate, opportunities increase for behavioral management as well as on-the-fly price discrimination. Through the dispersed system of mass monitoring and feedback, behaviors and cultures...