Kill Your Martyrs
...in the hospital before he succumbed to his injuries. His killers were apprehended, confessed, were fairly tried, and fairly convicted for the murder. They will and should spend the rest...
Yids
...“in the language and culture of Ashkenaz I found everything I had once assumed Judaism simply didn’t have: songs for every occasion, dances other than a zombified hora, and a...
Manual Override
...and Jean P. Vernant. Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, 38 We might also see camouflage in these terms, especially in its dazzle...
Trivial Pursuits
...provides an exhaustively researched historical survey of the culture of shoplifting, Rachel Shteir documents how the term has since evolved: In the mid-19th century, kleptomania was linked to melancholy and...
Post-coloniality Sells
...perform wedding ceremonies. To me as an author this present is an incredible moment. We are witnessing syncretic processes of African culture, as a result of clashing with Europe, is...
Thinking bad
...of the time before zines were replaced by tumblrs. (His distance from the spirit of Internet culture is evident in how he wrote about blogs in 2007 as if they...
When Game of Thrones Stopped Being Necessary
...would ask a question like this, putting a television show on (metaphorical) trial for its life, reflects the way pop culture has become a battle-ground on which a variety of...
Cause/Affect
...music. So what happens is that the music is very beautiful, and it creates a certain affect to the text. The manifesto texts are about political issues. And so, because...
Against the Normative World
...sex and sexuality that were repressive and diminished folks’ capacities for flourishing and vitality, I left the church almost wholesale. Almost. I kept listening to black gospel music, and still...
Obituary: Borders Books and Music
...we’d go from CD-listening station to station, trading headphones, discovering not just bands but popular music itself. We would spend hours, walk out without buying anything, and come back the...
The Missing Medium
...In describing how videogames can “do” music, he decouples the ideas of performing from playing. “When you play Guitar Hero,” Bogost argues, “you see, feel, and hear the musical patterns...
Vinyl re-enchantment
...where "nerds" could be vengeful bullies; now that we have a whole culture that is like that, record stores feel a bit redundant in that respect. But the more salient...
Phantom Tollbooths
...progress of anything, and even when unauthorized copies of works undermine the profits of the culture industry, as has happened most obviously to the music business, this does not seem...
Ultra Violence
...and culture. He said “we are like heirs of an emperor, or children of the Lupa [the wolf from the foundational myth of Rome], or the Roman people fierce and...
Super Position
...offers an opportunity to ask some potentially enlightening questions about contemporary culture. What are superhero movies really all about? What could explain the sudden explosion of such movies—one so dramatic...
Old Bones
...the object as it is, whereas, you know, “primitive cultures” always mix up culture and nature, and so they don’t have access to the object as such. That’s how western...