Sunday Reading
...South Asian Diasporic History Mecca’s Monuments, Seen through the Eyes of Construction Workers Songs of Imperial Authority: The Changing Function of Music From the Timurids to the Safavids Timeliness and...
The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence
How The University of Arizona is entwined with the Genocide Economy
Sunday Reading
...Always Lived with the Franzen (thx, Jane Hu!) Teenage Dreams ReclaimUC: UC --> VC UC's Chief Investment Officer envisions coal-fired power, cement factories as "green" investment opportunities From "Fuck The...
Kid Stuff
...the test. There’s a popular conception in mainstream US culture that childhood is carefree. Self-help listicles abound promising to teach struggling adults how to Live Like a Kid, Have Fun...
Punk Isn't
...consider: Angry Samoans, The Unboxed Set; Big Black, Songs About Fucking; the Circle Jerks, Group Sex; the Cramps, Bad Music for Bad People; Crass, Stations of the Crass; the Heartbreakers,...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: In-state undergraduates at UC pay in tuition "nearly twice what it cost the University to provide their education" Monsanto University Oberlin cancellation of classes was demanded by students...
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
Birds of a Ledger
...reads this guide, then, the mind for which this guide is written, is a scientifically delineated mind, a mind the book seeks to culture and manage through the insights of...
Pop at the End
This is what the end of the world sounds like
The Failure Addict
...Crew, top L.A. studio musicians of the period. On the album, Phillips doesn’t hesitate to transform the potentially embarrassing details of his personal life into frank songs — perhaps the...
None of This Is Written By Me
...you to take a look at. Also: the invention of the printing press, mass readership, public culture, etc. If this is simplistic, it’s not untrue. The idea that it’s necessary...
A Snowpiercer Thinkpiece, Not to Be Taken Too Seriously, But For Very Serious Reasons
...the tail-section, we are told, Gilliam and others cut off their own limbs to feed the others—a story I’m tempted to regard as more of a A primal scene, in...
Shaheen Bagh
...nationalists” – the political ancestors of the BJP – who prioritized Hindu culture and traditions, and “secular nationalists,” those whose nationalism was rooted in secular and democratic principles. The first...
Not for Prophet
...few entry points: a) TWC’s label, The Weather Channel Music, has released close to a dozen compilations of “Local on the 8s” songs. b) The Weather Channel Presents: The Best...
Looney Tunes
...a bunch of deer and wonder “which one likes country-punk, which one is the adventurous one, which is shy?” as they cross the road. Music is one way at getting...
Closing Statements
...Texas’s death chambers tried communicating something to us in their last moments. When we do receive their messages, we must consider what it means to receive them from their executioner,...