December 2009
26 posts
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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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.
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Listen Wandering Lucy, “Lady Genius” [Leap...
Dec 28th
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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]
Dec 26th
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Dec 22nd
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Listen Mike Watt, “Drove Up From Pedro,”...
Dec 20th
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Listen Primal Scream, “Living Dub” [Echo...
Dec 20th
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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]
Dec 20th
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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...
Dec 20th
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Dec 17th
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Listen Uilab, “St. Elmo’s Fire”,...
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“…magic is a call to happiness. The secret name is the gesture that...”
– Giorgio Agamben, Profanations [Zone Books, 2007]
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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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.
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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ListenJacques Dutronc, Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi ...
Dec 13th
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