Landscape of the Bleeding Crowd
...and scream at all the things. That dinner party at Mildred Adams'—that Spanish-speaking journalist in Granada, you remember?—is far away. My ears are bereft of the music of Albéniz and...
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...
Simulacra Descending a Staircase
...a vase of roses, by his side.) Cardboard Khomeini is descended to the tune of a musical procession of trumpets. (Khomeini did after all eventually legalize music). The officers salute...
Sunday Reading
...went on an elephant-killing spree and the Swedish Culture Minister was entertained by a racially offensive cake. “You can take the European out of the jungle, but you can’t take...
“The Beyblade Strategy” or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Focused Protection
...Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume.” What then of the vulnerable? The high risk? The authors of the Declaration simply state: “People who are more at risk...
What is Aleppo?
...the town currently known as Aleppo. Layers of Roman, Byzantine, Arabic, Sumerian and other historical civilisations are knotted together in the city’s architecture, food, music and character. Aleppo is the...
You're Not Pretty Enough
...we were accompanied by Cat and another DJ, Rick Michaels. The mood was giddy as we jammed out to music on the thirty-minute ride to the Richfield Coliseum on a...
#mybodymyhome (iii)
...impossibility of empathy. Njau refuses the fantasy that unethical regimes can exist without distributing their toxicity. The novel’s protagonist, Tesa Koki Kenga, composes and teaches music at a high school....
On the Skin of the World
...music, its conjuring of images. One may also be tempted, under the circumstances, by a largely genetic tack, skirting a marshy text on the firmer ground of history and biography....
Après Nous, le Déluge
...The sequence goes on and on, using vertical pans to give the sense of terrible accumulation, of a pile climbing higher and higher. Finally we reach the end—the music slows...
The Benevolence of the Butcher
...the Pleasures of the Table" (1912) The butcher did so. Moments after handing the him the score and bidding him farewell, Haydn heard faint music outside. He went to his...
No Life Stories
...data sets turn up correlations beyond our ability to explain them, the logic of explanation is being rewritten culture wide. As Andrejevic notes, “An era of information overload coincides ......
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Seven
...the chi chi ding dong sound of the berimbau worms its way into my insides and dissipates the pain like an aural analgesic. Music and dance: free Tylenol. ...
Selfie-Correction
...behind the practice establishes a cyclical association between the image and female subject, in which each is enlisted to reinforce the low status of the other. A music video by...
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...
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...