The Faces of Rimbaud
...death or the decline of his nation or culture but the passing of his youth. “It can only be the end of the world as you move forward,” he wistfully...
Beyond the Valley of 1984
...of moments of breathtaking music. Near the end of a masterful passage of diegetic drug-induced confusion rather than just imitative syntactic play, Aidan, tripping balls, is running out of a...
Confectionery Curriculum
...Illustration from Bürgerliches Wiener Kochbuch (1906) "The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry."...
21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes
When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that
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 ......
Fragments on microcelebrity
...11. To mark today's release of New Inquiry's music issue, Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg is screening a film tonight about Kurt Cobain, a clear casualty of the celebrity he was...
Sunday Reading
...the World (Chapter 5) Guitar Hero TV and the Rebirth of Music Television 'being yellow' by binghao wong Why you should be checking out this year's interactive fiction competition Conversations...
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...
“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....
Manifesto for Confessional Journalism
...‘turn expressions of the capitalist system and its media culture against itself’. Any subject, especially the boring subjects listed above, can and must be approached in this way. Marx, Freud...
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....
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...
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...