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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Writing Like a Partisan
Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes offers insight into contemporary Italian fascism
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.
Bad Romance
...are shocking, transfixing and emotionally exhausting—in a good way. The first of these galleries is a gilded mirrored room, with gothic light fixtures and creepy mood music. The first dress...
Old and damned like a grave
...dinners, star gazing, smiley culture music… shan a shan (clearly homer had access to decent mdma.) are you starting to get the picture? (1) staying young for ever, but staying...
red dots
...misogyny in philosophy and culture, it is precisely the period that slices through the figure to produce a question: a question of being, a question of equality. It is precisely...
European Pie
...and the city awakens in a hangover? What happens, as is the title of the song of Azerbaijan’s entry sung by Sabina Babayeva this year, when the music dies?...
in the Name of INJUSTICE
...to induce the candidates away from non-??????? use of words (No, Perhaps, Less, etc.) while they are awaiting initiation, and to provide them with suitable entertainment (music, trembling bass, answering...
Five Questions with Eileen Myles
...Pater that 'all art constantly aspires towards the conditions of music'? No. That seems rather one note. He's being prescriptive. I don't think he knows what he's talking about. Winter...
Off-Brand
...nor steal but are magically “gifted.” Anyone can get free music or free food (provided their standards are low enough), and art objects are worth nothing unless they’re purchased. Only...
The New Inquiry Vol. 2 Release Screening and Panel: Livestream
...the run up to Occupy Wall Street's declared May 1 general strike, we've assembled a panel to discuss the film, pop music, and revolutionary politics featuring: Cosmo Bjorkenheim, a New...
Art, Work, and Refusal
...am certainly strong, but I am not comfortable with silence in this situation. I refuse to be a silent artist regarding issues that affect my livelihood and the culture of...