December 2009
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…there is the case of Belvedere Park 1970, when the Eastside riots erupted...
– Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, [University of California Press, 2005] p. 220.
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I dreamed I was a member of an exploring party in Mexico. After crossing a...
– Walter Benjamin, “Mexican Embassy”, from One-Way Street, in Reflections [1978, Schoken Books]
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[James] Baldwin is more akin to the “new listener” outlined by...
– Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race and America [University of California Press, 2005]
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Stiegler on Death, Time, and Phantasms in Heidegger
This all-too-brief excerpt from the film The Ister, is a breathless and breathtaking gloss on two key concepts in Being and Time: on the one hand, a sidelong brush against Heidegger’s project of the destruction of the history of ontology, (which he foregrounds alongside his investigations into Being); and second, the existential modality...
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…magic is a call to happiness. The secret name is the gesture that...
– Giorgio Agamben, Profanations [Zone Books, 2007]
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Dam-Funk: Mirrors [Stones Throw] (Courtesy, Pitchfork TV)
Nothing like admonishments to introspection along with pastry cream-thick beats to awaken one from a slumber—pneumatic, somatic, or otherwise. And those handclaps on the two? They are just plain rich.
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