This is my blog post for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival hosted by V.H. Belvadi, the topic for which is on the importance of friction. More specifically, this post was inspired by Manuel Morale’s post on the topic.
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Oh wow. Talking shit about rich people really does work.
Chapter Seventeen: The Rest of the Voiceless, Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao
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Review: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
- Priest: Do you think God gives a damn about miniature donkeys, Colm?
- Colm Doherty: I fear he doesn’t. And I fear that’s where it’s all gone wrong.
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Review – Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovanniti
Art and sex occupy similar positions under capitalism. The commodification of each, while rampant, is also rife with anxiety and subject to questions of ethics, purity, and meaning. This is because we are told art and sex shouldn’t be commodified. Both are seemingly sacred forms of human expression, and we are taught to keep them close to ourselves, safe from capital’s voracious appetite. And yet, art and sex– and specifically the art and sex industries–are actually capital’s stress points: two industries saturated in hyper-capitalist relations while also existing on the outskirts of the formal economy.
page 5, Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
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My 2024 Albums Of The Year
This was originally published on my music blog Synthicator. I have shut down that project so it is now republished here.
What a year it has been for music. Not only did we get some amazing music this year but we got significant musical phenomenons that dominated the discourse for the most of the year. 2024 was the year of the Brat, it was the year of Kendrick vs. Drake, Not Like Us and GNX.
As a hip-hop enjoyer, nay a music enjoyer I am ecstatic to have lived through very very interesting times musically speaking. Music to party to, music to cry to, music to protest to, music to fight to, music to love to. We’ve got it all this year.
These are the albums that defined 2024 for me. These are in no particular order.
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