Five Questions with CAConrad
...music. I place a piece of fruit on the floor with my laptop to play one track from Victoire’s CATHEDRAL CITY CD. I cover the fruit and laptop with a...
Sunday Reading
...that culture of origin is “the single most important variable” in determining if a plane crashes’ “languages differ not so much in what they can express as what they must...
Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You
...available free to those willing to test the piracy waters. And just as the advent of the mp3 led to heretofore impossible-to-hear music becoming available to anybody willing to search...
A Man Alone
...populist who rendered the ordinary person's feelings and aspirations in easily digested metaphors while the culture snobs sneered. But if you listen to a lot of his music or read...
The Crimson Ghost
...of the most instantly recognizable pop culture insignias; it’s been featured on everything from knock-off Ugg Boots and thong underwear to diaper bags. In fact, it is a cultural cliché....
Orhan Pamuk and The National on Sadness
...safe, somehow removed. The addictive quality of the National’s music is in its flippant, wallowing, self-conscious sadness. Even their songs about love and comfort and pleasant things take place in...
You Are Too Much
...woman has absorbed the lessons of pop music without irony, in the atmosphere of total surveillance exemplified by Facebook and the NSA, and now believes that love should be conducted...
The Collection and the Cloud
...yet the archival functionality of platforms feels like an empty promise. In the culture of surveillance, evidence collection is never-ending, a shadow to every activity. These daily interactions with (and...
Get Off
...always been in my experience closer to the language used to describe music: Things are harsh, ethereal, fuzzy, stark, amplified, severe, ringing. Out of context, if you missed the first...
The Weather
...her children as property, she succeeds in killing her daughter Mary. After which she is recaptured, held, tried, and put on the Henry Lewis, that ship that will return her...
PACBI Now
...speech are collectively organizing to prevent culture from abetting oppression. These coalitions suggest that even when those involved have little financial or political power, and even when their fields are...
Teju Cole's Afrolicious Playlist
...of African music this past week. We're honored to share one of these in the A/V section here. All text comes from Cole's tweets. To improve your Friday immeasurably, here's...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 6 & 7 & 8)
...is a musical, or at least there is music playing. There are people dancing. They don't sing so maybe that means it is not a musical. That moon is cut...
A Sensor, Darkly
Bryant, who was named the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, is an air force veteran. His memoir originally appeared in Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, which will be published next month by Duke University Press. The essay collection was edited by Lisa Parks and
Fake Painting
...like successful forgers are closer to these fantastic stereotypes than other kinds of art criminals. That’s absolutely right, and I teach forgery differently than other categories of art crime. Forgergery...
Burial Ground Acknowledgements
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide