The Question of Pain
...arms to the point of acute bleeding. In Last Days Here, Liebling is killing himself along with his pain, but the result is not one-dimensional music. Even cracked out on...
Lester Bangs and Rock Music As The Eternal High School Girlfriend
...critiquing music, Lester Bangs had a very public and messy personal relationship with rock & roll. In this essay declaring the Stones lost and irrelevant, he breaks into a free-verse...
Eine Kleine SpaceMusik
...action is like music. I like that. What have you learned about the relationship between culture and science? I think you just have to accept there are different understandings...
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
The Trouble with Digital Conservatism
...Producing Culture for the Digital Economy,” Tiziana Terranova argues that “the internet is about the extraction of value out of continuous, updateable work, and it is extremely labor-intensive.” Nicholas Carr...
Wound Down Inside
...uses more euphemistic terms—“stately” and “languid”—to describe the album’s lack of musical tension, intensification, or variation. Nearly every review I read remarked on the album’s “unwavering” (Snapes) pace: 11 songs,...
To Sit on a Throne of Teeth, Graced With a Crown of Teeth
...tried to kill before. It is further dressed up with the camouflage of arcane “rules” to be followed, such as the claim that the fairies only take one child per...
The History of Dialogue: Black Friday
...content. The best pop songs are the emptiest. At that point, pop music has nothing to do with subjectivity or identity construction: You don’t become empty when you hear it;...
The Birth of the Uncool: Yacht Rock and Libidinal Subversion
...century, sadly misrecognizes its role, regarding the form as reactionary and "counterrevolutionary" rather than a subtle dialectical initiative instigated by alienated workers from within the culture industry, the very operatives...
Cell Culture and Science Culture
...process known as tissue culture . Meanwhile, the Aschheim-Zondek or A-Z test took five days, requiring dozens of rodents and technicians to dissect them. This was one of Seegar’s tasks...
The Nuclear National Family
The Fukushima disaster exposed fissures in Japanese society that its familial politics tries to paper over
Centrifugal Women
Yūko Tsushima’s novel of a mother on the margins
Wizards of Like
...were inclined to instinctively accept the feed as a natural flow. That seems to reflect consumers’ attitude toward television, where content simply flows from channels and we don’t generally stop...
Knocked Out Loaded
...is as a rape facilitator. As such, the drug bears no small amount of responsibility for restricting women’s freedom of movement in a so-called rape culture. Unfortunately, a different truth...
Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation
Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine McKittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.
Our Brand Could Be Your Crisis
We Are Your Friends is not our youth, but it might as well be