Destroy All Monsters
...purges of the early 1950’s, breaking strikes, battling students, and persecuting communists and “communists.” The police reserve was rechristened the National Self-Defense Force in 1952. Japan played an active role...
What Was the Child?
Childhood as we currently understand it emerged with 20th century capitalism, but as the distinction between labor and leisure is breaking down, so too is the concept of childhood
Minor Feelings
...the self and another person, who held out the promise of recognition without ever fulfilling it. The only thing that approximated fulfillment in these songs was the music itself. At...
The Souls of Drone Folk
...and gun, a modern-day mixture of centaur and centurion” and “the closest the military has come to creating a human killing machine”: The sniper may, like other soldiers, be subject...
Armed Words
...new humanity, and hopefully a new thinking, a new culture. This is what I am trying to do. Is part of the challenge the diasporic nature of the Syrian community...
Come Down With Fire
...interview with Amanda Redington, Dio explained his "mystical" lyrics as a palliative for "the awfulness in the world," which he pointedly characterizes in terms of rape culture: "Every time you...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 93
...the most powerful companies in the world: Google. […] a shift from one-off product sales to services that will become essential to our everyday lives, things that we will pay...
Can She Dig It
...strange feeling,” said Rebecca Birmingham, one of few female collectors featured on the blog Dust and Grooves: Vinyl Music Culture. Though women have collected vinyl since the inception of the...
Dead Can Dance
...Freud (1990) and Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (2003). Like these books, The Work of the Dead investigates the troubled line between nature and culture, and the manifold...
The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
Capital Flows
...Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, artists like the Beastie Boys “convinced music industry executives that rap music, for all of its ‘blackness’ in attitude, style, speech, music,...
Taming the Inexplicable
...also have to make a choice to be a constant target of harassment from an extremely paranoid and xenophobic culture or just be completely ignored. Many creators give up and...
Let Us Eat Cake
...can? As ReclaimUC pointed out, there's an entire theory of politics embedded in that narrative of saving the UC through re-branding: the best way to pressure politicians to stop de-funding...
Black Magic,
White Soul
...white America loves black culture at a distance, loves hip-hop but is afraid of black men, plays black music in cars that have never carried black passengers. The film’s dual...
TNI Vol. 9 Editorial Note: On Music, Utopia, and Failure
...questioning the very meaning of the words music and failure when joined together. The point of looking at music and failure is not to revel in cynicism or absolve complacency...
Mass Authentic
...grounds of individuality — no more folk culture or tradition, they are strictly in the past — but instead consists of standardized, bureaucratic, massified, synthetic culture. “Authenticity” becomes commercialized nostalgia...