The Slopes of Davos
...professor Chris Washburne and his band taught the audience how to survive neoliberal uncertainty with the “spontaneous creativity that we have inherited from the African-American culture.” Quoting the early soloist...
Expressed in Fits
...expect never materialize. The citywide competition quickly fades from view. Practice is usually without music. At least once, music is denied: Karisma commands, “Cue the music,” as the scene cuts...
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...
Travel and Anti-Travel @ Mansion 1/14
... An evening of reading and music based on travel, anti-travel, epistles, history, and other weary geographies. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi will read from two forthcoming books: epistolary fiction...
Astral Projections
...history and culture, evidence of this is slowly being erased from the face of the earth. I cannot access Jerusalem now and only memories of it remain, making reality as...
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...
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...
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...
Fear, Pain, and the Representation of Women’s Wartime Trauma
...psychology specifically, and medicine more generally, was used to reinforce gender and culture norms. Even though trauma related to air raids was a widespread and prevalent cause of incarceration in...
Vol. 31 Editor's Note: Mourning
...In an interview with historian Thomas Laqueur, Hannah Black floats the idea that human culture itself can be thought of as an elaborate work of mourning, our lives beholden to...
A Time for Treason
...Security Culture, CrimethInc EFF Surveillance Self Defense The Intercept's Surveillance Self Defense against the Trump Administration Things To Know About Web Security Before Trump’s Inauguration How Journalists Can Protect Themselves...
Mourning
...the idea that human culture itself can be thought of as an elaborate work of mourning, our lives beholden to an original loss. Laqueur’s new book on death unearths the...
Black President
...that popular culture will always orient itself toward the president, although sometimes it’s a more powerful orientation than other times. The only thing that happened when Bush was president was...
“I do wish mother had a boudoir:” Hertha Ayrton’s Home Laboratory
...were not necessarily complementary in engineering at the turn of the 20th century. Further reading Elizabeth Bruton. “The life and material culture of Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923): suffragette, physicist, mathematician...
Playing With Death
...roleplaying game that began with 1980’s Rogue and emerged from the culture of tabletop, dice ‘n’ graph paper dungeoneering. The roguelike’s key characteristics are randomly generated environments and "permadeath" –...
The Life Changing Magic of Hoarding
The arc of American empire bends towards the garbage bin.