Slayyyter, Recession Indicator
Slayyyter is the queen of dilapidation, and partying is her defiance against a socio-political structure designed to keep the majority down.
Culture
What Art Brut Teaches Us About Modern Internet Culture
In response to modern corporate polish, digital creators are turning to Art Brut’s intentional imperfection as artistic resistance.
Bloodrock’s Declassification of the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers was a political whistleblower. Bloodrock had a hit song about death. Their worlds converged in 1972.
Not Every “Monstrous Bitch” Is a Feminist Victim
Qualities coded as “monstrous” in Eleanor Johnson’s Monstrous Bitch are more interesting than assuming that their monstrosity is itself evidence of patriarchy.
Stephen Greenblatt’s Distinctly Modern Sir Walter Raleigh
Like a literary psychoanalyst, Stephen Greenblatt delves into Sir Walter Raleigh’s inner identity; like a sociological theatre critic, he explores Elizabethan performance and reveals striking parallels to our time.
Why Deadhead Culture Is a Pure Strain of American Noir
Yes, Deadheads came for the music, but also for the possibility of a life outside the bounds of straight society; something vaguely criminal and very American noir.
When Plainsong Searched for Amelia Earhart
Purdue University recently announced a new expedition to discover what happened to Amelia Earhart. In 1972, the band Plainsong sang of its own investigation into the heroine’s mythology.
Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Mother Night’ Would Like to Speak to You
Fascism seeks to eradicate difference, that mind-messing hobgoblin. It wants to erase knowledge and create unity in ignorance. Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night distills these themes in our era’s discourse.
The Immanent Transcendence in Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’
Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling operates in the language of the unconscious, which is the language of the dead. The viewer must invite the dead into each present moment.
Olé! Allez! Go! World Cup Songs That Make the Earth Move
Made for the masses, and specifically for football fans, Most World Cup songs sound like AI slop, but there are some rare gems to be found, and we’ve got them.
Chris and Jack’s Hypnotic Blinking Screens with Changing Colors
YouTube sketch comedy Chris and Jack critiques media clichés, predictable outcomes, and our addiction to hypnotic screens; the very things of the series itself.
Gen X’s Death By the Point of the Stiletto
David Frankel’s satire The Devil Wears Prada rendered Gen X’s smarter-than-everyone, holier-than-thou attitude of perpetual disaffection obsolete.