The Fight and the Whale
...helped shape and reshape rock music. Reed didn't need to hire a famous artist to do the cover of his first record, because THE MOST FAMOUS ARTIST ON THE PLANET...
Where the Hell Do You Think You Are?
...History has fallen of Chaplin’s dreams. But there’s something else unnerving about this speech besides the disappointments of History. The speech begins with the very same music that played throughout...
Sunday Reading
...culture is reshaped by class hierarchies." Race, disability, and the school-to-prison pipeline Student debtors slide deeper into peonage College is a promise the economy doesn't keep "As a professor who...
What Even Can You Even Say About The Princess-Man of North Sudan?
...his culture has programmed him to do: he is performing patriarchal whiteness using the convenient props provided by “Africa” as a space of negation. If your heroes are George Washington...
Some Kind of Exile
...city, and got lost in the subway system. It was nice, a good introduction to American culture. So the next day, I was to take a bus from Port Authority...
After Infinitude
...instead targeting an audience that is seeking an illusion of intellectual rigor, but in our shock-gratification culture, wants it delivered in a compressed, dramatically scored, high-octane finale. It’s not a...
Massively Open Online Police State
...the obvious ways to make production more efficient—fewer musicians playing faster—wouldn’t work as well for the production of music as for the production of cars. An organization with cost disease...
Deeper Than Rap: Black Bar Mitzvahs and the New Rick Ross
...Jewish Christmas, a parallel tradition for those left out of the main culture.” One also wonders whether if who’s Jewish/whose bar mitzvah question might be a red herring obscuring a...
When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician. His latest collection, titled simply […], was written in the months following Israel's escalation of genocide in Gaza—which killed many of Joudah's family members.
Black Life, Annotated
...black resistance. When Goffman starts her PhD program at Princeton she confesses to experiencing culture shock. She has been living in another world and so she no longer gets the...
The Right to Remain Silent
...on the basis of a very real ideological divide. Here, too, is another link to how prison pipelines target minorities. Those ignorant of Deaf culture see deafness as an inherently...
Made for China
...years ago, bicycles and buses dominated Beijing, but now the city streets are an impasse of cars. For a culture so obsessed with America, it gives them a thrill to...
Gender Fuck
...people use porn as sex education, but because porn is also a reflection of our culture's sexual politics. Unfortunately, working in the adult industry still carries a heavy stigma and...
The Hasheesh Eater
...music and conversation the time passed pleasantly. The clock struck ten, reminding me that three hours had elapsed since the dose was taken, and as yet not an unusual symptom...
Everybody Have Fun Tonight
...lyrics, performances, and products create a parallel reality. LMFAO describes their music as instructional, a how-to-party-rock guide, and their performances offer no shortage of cues to perform various party actions....
The innocently readable novel
...by hand, producing top-quality, artisanal sound systems. Since the boom years in the 1990’s, when (Western) classical music was still revered and a skilled audio technicians were in hot demand,...