What in the hell …

Most of us already know, don’t we? (more…)

Maybe it’s the springtime air. I just listened to a mix a friend made for me. I’m head over heels in crush with this song “My little brother just discovered rock and roll” by Art Brut. I’m a sucker for an English accent, a kind of barky or yappy vocal approach, and songs about music. And the it’s got a nice dissonant noisey guitar thing going on (I would have called it an “angular” sound when I was younger and reading music mags a lot). Great bassline as well. Makes one want to bob a bit at knees and neck, with the odd awkward twitch in between (the vestiges of dance-drive left over from years of music that isn’t super dance conducive in settings that are dance unfriendly). Go download it.

ps - in case anyone’s interested, my contribution to the Spivak discussion is online now at Long Sunday.

It’s/they’re a dumb joke. (more…)

Answering, of course, requires being able to say what’s old about the past and what is and is not old about the present. In the context of a longer post, Steve Shapiro at Pinocchio Theory kindly responded to my notes on Deleuze’s “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” (more…)

I listen to Propagandhi. (more…)

As in, ’societies of control.’ (more…)

Thinking more about some conversations around Negri, and about Marx… (more…)

I wrote about this a bit to some UK pals not long ago. This weekend it came up again. (more…)