Poor Sleeping Habits
...Dutt song from the 1951 film Baazi plays in the background. The repetitive, broken recordings of 1950s Bollywood film songs shaped the radio-listening culture of Mumbai, haunting the urban sounds...
Ms. America
...both the worst of our stereotypes and the most endearing. Lana Del Rey reacquaints with the danger and intrigue that pop culture once promised our borders held. Borders of class,...
The 2014 TNI Awards
...guilty for our cultural under-consuming all year, and, most importantly, how could we fully inhabit the sheer repetitive horror of spectacularly cyclical time? If culture, current events, and even our...
Witnessing Patriarchy
...fellow students were young, they tried to kill the father: Marxists all, they found Cheik Anta Diop’s work inadequate, ill-conceived, something to be cast off. Today, he reflected, decades after...
They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them
...Here he tried to understand not only how a person could do such a thing, but what Romand’s life must have been like for those long 18 years. The Adversary...
History Made Queasy
...verse 21 (29 BC) his cook tried to coax him to greater indulgence by preparing his favorite dishes. The cook knew Lee had a weakness for "old Virginia flapjacks ......
Summer Heat
...that Beverly Lee was actually a boy. On the day after Beverly Lee was shot, the Detroit News reported on the incident: Shot in the back as he tried to...
"Spaces where identity stutters and goes silent”
...a Hitchcock movie. I could practically hear the music as Freddy walked out of the frame. But the second death was what tripped me up. I didn’t figure it out...
Bad News
...own subject position than anything else. Specifically, it reveals an affiliation with the white bourgeois culture given an unexpected glimpse of its own fragility by the economic shocks of the...
Technicolor Tehran
...the early 1980s, graphic representations still retain cultural specificity. The all-purpose term visual culture can flatten the differences between what pixacão on buildings in São Paulo signifies versus the constant...
Hi Haters!
...appreciative “fans,” to use Marwick’s word. But that seems to falsely imply microfame exhibitionism stems from delusions of grandeur. Valences drawn from celebrity culture and discourse may help suppress the...
Boom and Rust
...his classic California: A History, Kevin Starr wrote, “In just about every way possible—its internationalism, its psychology of expectation, its artistic and literary culture, its racism, its heedless damage to...
The Unproven Body
...and others near you, where they disrupt no one but yourself and these others near you. I tried to move around my home the way I had the day before....
Sick
...with the knowledge that you have tried to kill yourself, as Natasha Lennard writes in “On Suicide.” Questions of intent are necessarily hazy in this act, which confounds the subject-object...
TNI REX (1)
...Exist" Big bones are easy to fake. But not everyone has been taken in by the paleontology hoax. Watch and learn. Willie Osterweil, Editor Music Blog: Beat Electric For the...
Compose Yourself
...smoothie blend ... only to unbalance and ignite it all over again; • there's almost no decent music criticism of Thug except for what the thoroughfares of these internet streets...