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...
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.
The Day After Yesterday, Part 1: The Bad Omen
...that our suspicions are confirmed: the bee's sting was coming from inside the mouth. The music, meanwhile, will not shut up, swelling with zithers and lush cello ad infinitum every...
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...
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...
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...
City Hunger
...pass that the wind would make her clothes flutter and uncover her legs that seemed to be made of scarlet, milk and music all mixed together”—but he is awake to...
FIC.THE.SKY
Livestream fictioning from the Fierce Festival in Birmingham, United Kingdom
En passant
...also known for earnest, "raw" emotionality that gains an aura of authenticity through amateur production values. In music, technology has even developed to the point where crappy production values is...