Culture Commentary and Miscellaneous Musings
- 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.
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
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.
Continue reading “My 2024 Albums Of The Year”If I had to pick a singular theme for the books I read this year, it would be – thoughtful non-fiction. While non-fiction makes up 34% of the 38 books I read this year, most of the ones I read had a significant impact on my thoughts during this year. I suppose that is the most significant metric I use to determine which of the books I read this year were not only good but also impactful.
I think this is the first time I am writing one of these book of the year lists, this should be fun.
The list is below, these are in chronological order of when I read them.
2024 was a light year of video games for me. I ended up not playing a lot of big games in the latter half of the year so this year I have three games I consider my 2024 games of the year.
Here they are.