Mara
...hands grab the gitaruru, move it from side to side. You relish the music of rice grains moving against each other, the counterpoint of rice moving against the gitaruru’s fibres....
Dating Games
...between friends. When a “date” invites you up to listen to records, for instance, you can no longer answer based on how you feel about music; you must now answer...
"Venice drowning! Venice drowning! Venice drowning!"
...brief note: all hitherto existing illustrations and popular culture descriptions of mermaids have totally fucking lied. Totally. Because they always show them as sexless and assholeless, as sexless as angels...
From Autonomen to Antifa
Exploring the roots of modern antifa in the German Autonomen movement of the eighties: an interview with George Katsiaficas
Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian
For María Lugones
Real Human Being
...the human features its own aspirations and ways of relating—which, taken together, make up what Wynter calls a culture’s “descriptive statement.” Wynter argues that the West, through imperial expansion and...
Sunday Reading: October 29, 2023
...art market runs on being a tax incentivized wealth management program, the efforts by those who benefit from that program to assert their political views on culture workers is still...
For One Another
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
The Taste of Earth
...that people from South Asia have been here for 5000 years. I pointed out that culture changes and we cannot make a direct link between what may have happened 5000...
She Mad and She Magic
...diptych. The book interweaves history, cultural narratives and archetypes, popular culture, and the author’s personal anecdotes to tell a story in two parts. Part one offers a picture of the...
The State of the Unions
A group of people from various positions and experiences with labor unions and worker movements gathered to discuss the problems and potential of labor organizing today. What follows is an edited version of their conversation.
An Evening with Gulf Labor @ The New School
...of a publication, The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor. This event features reports by Gulf Labor members Nitasha Dhillon, Mariam Ghani, Amin Husain, Andrew Ross and Gregory Sholette and focuses on...
New lows
...two different ideas, somehow conflictual, but as w/ music, 'news exceed reality' (thomas bernhard) and, simultaneously, fades in the next spumous moment. non-stop.“ […] Guy Debord: “The spectacle presents itself...
No Hay Nada
...and generally high-quality health care and its creole stew of a culture that’s seemingly devoid of familiar forms of racism. While many of Cuba’s visitors have access to consumer choices...
Camp Walker
...the moment in Mulholland Drive where the singing continues despite the singer’s collapse, there is something about such loud disembodied music that I find just a little disquieting. Back at...
TNI REX (2)
...Government on arts education and the culture of its citizens." Rob Horning, Executive Editor Music: "Dream Gerrard" by Traffic Like much of Traffic's late-period output, this song, from its last...