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...
Film Premiere: Masha Tupitsyn's Love Sounds (11/4 + 11/5)
...While much emphasis has been placed on the visual iconography of love, with the exception of music very little attention has been given to love as an aural phenomenon since...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vol. 21 Editors' Note: Witches
...take cues from self-help classic The Secret in order to satisfy government-backed dreams of social mobility. Nic Cavell writes of Witch House, the circa-2010 music genre that “made a subject...
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...
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...
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...