The Day After Yesterday, Part 2: The Gathering Storm
...punch with one too many zithering climbs, the music just tosses forth crescendo after crescendo in unceasing sequence, as an ocean breeds waves or as a city pukes condos on...
Strangers in a Strange Land
...own promises. I knew it might not be totally possible to communicate any of this, but by God, I tried. Soon after I met Michael, he said of my apparent...
Free Us All
Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing.
Simple and Plain
...the music he made after the 1968 Comeback. I'm amazed by moments like this, a 1970 performance of "Make the World Go Away." Wearing a ludicrous white high-collar jumpsuit with...
Otherwise Movements
...where we are in terms of the fights for justice, the fights for equity. One of my friends says that the beauty in black music is found in how it...
Outgrowing oneself
...playing. I felt instantly as if I had been completely exposed. I thought there was something special about being into a certain kind of music — and Nirvana in the...
Enjoy the Rules
...of reciprocity on the Web, fostering a culture of mutually beneficial cooperation and due credit. Lanier, walking the talk, traces his idea to Ted Nelson, a network theorist who envisioned...
Trans Historical Narratives
...the word. You can ’ t feed mostly upon yourself and sustain enough energy to live, that ’ s always going to be counter-productive. The process of writing about oneself...
terrain & terroir
...law, legitimacy and culture in both colonial and post-colonial contexts as ideas of sexuality, as the expression of essence and freedom compete with both ideas of sexuality as social reproduction...
Alphabet of an Unknown City (A-M)
...wasn’t even Spanish, I’m certain he was a gypsy or Eastern European”) Buñuel’s blind street musician Single frames from Los Olvidados, 16mm film in digital transfer, courtesy of Harvard Film...
All Housing Doesn’t Matter
An interview with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy
❒ she ❒ i ✔ haze
...saves princess tiger lily. a party is organized, music and skewers, and the occasion for tiger lily, rather introvert, to show her feline side. she's a capricorn, like grandmaster flash....
Life and Death in Dioramas
...of her primary teaching tool, a series of dollhouse-sized dioramas called The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. The dioramas were designed to teach investigators how to observe a crime scene,...
Sunday Reading, June 18, 2023
...within trans culture: the fake choice between literalism and opacity. Instead of making us choose, Wallenhorst looks at how this false dichotomy was produced in the first place. The anatomist...
Then and Now and Never (Part 2)
...auto plants are set in its periphery. In so doing, I tried to get a wider sense of the factory, to see it as something itself situated in those long...
Organized Plunder
In the absence of the tax dollars city governments rely on, American are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.