A generation of highly original thinkers whose commitment to their work was not limited to the fickle favors of the research and education sector. An all-too-brief introduction.
The Resilience of/to Sleaford Mods
Rihanna is neither the un-investible noise of resistance nor the efficient investment of resilience, but rather the inefficiency of melancholy.
We have to go through an extraordinarily complex entanglement of experiences, norms, and systems of power and control to even scratch the surface of the political in popular music.
They Gave Me a Useless Education
When you hold up the noteworthy to save a program, you’ll always be at least one example short. For Jay Z’s story to be remarkable, the poverty he came from must still exist.
On “Bored in the USA” on Letterman on YouTube
Father John Misty’s Letterman performance opens up a space where irony and sincerity can co-exist.
Pop music is instead the soup we swim in, the fabric of your genes brushing on your knees.
A Holiday Gift: Field of Reeds
I am describing something I have sincerely come to love and I do this to challenge my own impulse towards cynicism. Not to banish cynicism, it is really important, but to make it not what I do every day.
Music has come to involve those who consume its present, often commercial, form in a vast and intricate web of technology, ideology, exploitation, artistry, and much more.
Rhizomes, Torrenting, and Thom Yorke
Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes must be considered in a way that understands the nature of the mode of communication through which it is accessed as a part of the artistic intent.
How Gene Simmons Helped Kill Rock
Simmons sees the crisis of cultural production as a problem caused by middle class people not sufficiently understanding how capitalism is supposed to work.