[A monthly link list of recommended articles, videos, podcasts, photos, tweets … you name it]
[Videos]
A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Illustrated by Molly Crabapple, presented by Naomi Klein)
Trouble 19: Quiet Storm
[Music]
DJ FOOD – Rave Up Mix
Negativland – More Data
[Podcasts]
New ways of seeing [bbc] – “A four-part series authored by journalist and artist James Bridle examining how technology is changing visual culture.” By James Bridle. Enough said.
No wall they can build [crimethinc] – “We’ve divided this riveting first person account of life and death in the borderlands into eleven chapters, and over the next three months, we’ll be releasing them in weekly installments each Wednesday.” Top notch in content as well as production.
[Articles English]
How to protest art [hyperallergic] – “[A] six-part series by the artist that will be published every day this week (Mon–Sat) regarding the recent Whitney Museum protests and the issues at stake.” A comic.
Live Commentary on Žižek-Peterson Debate [current affairs] – “It’s just stunning to me how little connection there is between what is happening here and anything I would consider rational thought. I have to end this now before my brain melts. I am sorry. I have failed you.” Even if, he did not manage to finish, this is all you need to read on this farcical debate.
What is Freedom? [current affairs] – “The great anarchist thinker Mikhail Bakunin captured this idea well in a famous quote: “liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice and socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.” Free market liberty means being ruled over by corporations, fake socialist liberty means being ruled over by authoritarian governments.” Yes, I am a big fan of current affairs, so? Sue me.
Music consumption has unintended economic and environmental costs [gla.ac.uk] – “From a carbon emissions perspective, however, the transition towards streaming recorded music from internet-connected devices has resulted in significantly higher carbon emissions than at any previous point in the history of music.”
Tradition of Self-Harm in Performance Art [hyperallergic] – CW: Blood, Sexuality, Self-Harm “Nearly five decades since Burden and Abramović began their explorations, an emerging crop of artists are re-envisioning artistic self-harm in both methodology and intent. Less violent and horrifying, more poignant and intimate, their works aim to communicate similarly complex messages to viewers, but through subtlety rather than shock.”
The natural world can help save us from climate catastrophe | George Monbiot [the guardian] – “Ecological restoration can be a powerful means of protecting the atmosphere – we need to rewild on a massive scale”
[Articles German/French]
Das System, das uns nicht erwachsen werden lässt [spex] – “Von Stranger Things bis Greta Thunberg: Wir laden unsere Hoffnungen und Sehnsüchte auf Kindern ab. Dies ist symptomatisch für den infantilen Kapitalismus der Gegenwart. Zeit, sich vom Konzept der Kindheit selbst zu verabschieden.”
Was wäre wenn es keine Gefängnisse gäbe? [was wäre wenn] – “Seit rund 200 Jahren ist das Gefängnis die vorherrschende Form des Strafens. Sie verspricht Gerechtigkeit, Abschreckung und Resozialisierung. Doch viele Haftanstalten sind überfüllt, Rückfallquoten hoch. Es ist Zeit, Alternativen zu diskutieren.” New thematic website with a “what if” approach, first issue looking at prisons.
Sauvons la cathédrale du cœur [lundi.am] – “Les ruines de la cathédrale, rendues à l’usage populaire, nous rappelleraient que les choses passent, expliqueraient aux puissants, si imposant ou ridicule que soit leur règne, que celui-ci touche à sa fin, et que leur monde finira dans un embrasement sans cri ni gémissement, un évanouissement qui réjouira les cœurs à la façon d’un feu de joie.”
Wie können Männer Feministen sein? [spiegel online] – “Reicht es, mit der Tochter ab und an Fußball zu spielen? Viele Männer fragen sich, wie sie feministisch handeln können. Hier kommen Tipps für ein gleichberechtigtes Leben – und für ein gesünderes.”
“Ich will, dass die Leute so wütend werden, wie ich es bin” [republik] – “Die britische Autorin Reni Eddo-Lodge wollte eigentlich nicht mehr mit Weissen über Rassismus reden. Dann hat sie ein Buch darüber geschrieben – und tut seither nicht mehr viel anderes, als mit Weissen über Rassismus zu reden.”
[Older articles, still great]
Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance [roar magazine] – “Bookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy.”
DEVENIR from Géraldine Charpentier-Basille
R.I.P.
Lyra McKee
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