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Robert Reich: Occupiers Occupied: The Hijacking of the First Amendment
Robert Reich: Occupiers Occupied: The Hijacking of the First Amendment
‘A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.’
·robertreich.org·
Robert Reich: Occupiers Occupied: The Hijacking of the First Amendment
Pitchfork: Interviews: Bradford Cox
Pitchfork: Interviews: Bradford Cox
The outspoken Deerhunter frontman and reluctant indie idol talks to Larry Fitzmaurice about radical honesty, his thorny relationship with chillwave, self-loathing, and his excellent new Atlas Sound album, Parallax.
·pitchfork.com·
Pitchfork: Interviews: Bradford Cox
Anil Dash: All in Favor
Anil Dash: All in Favor
Why Anil favorites so much. ‘In short, favoriting or liking things for me is a performative act, but one that's accessible to me with the low threshold of a simple gesture. It's the sort of thing that can only happen online, but if I could smile at a person in the real world in a way that would radically increase the likelihood that others would smile at that person, too, then I'd be doing that all day long.’
·dashes.com·
Anil Dash: All in Favor
SPIN.com: Defending Dyson's Georgetown Jay-Z Class
SPIN.com: Defending Dyson's Georgetown Jay-Z Class
‘Jay-Z’s lyrics would work just fine in a literature or poetry class (Decoded is basically his own Norton Critical Anthology of Jigga), but that's irrelevant to this discussion because, as nearly everyone who mocked the course seemed to ignore, Dyson is teaching a Sociology course! And Jay-Z's career is perfectly suited for the study of that discipline.’
·spin.com·
SPIN.com: Defending Dyson's Georgetown Jay-Z Class
Pitchfork: Interviews: Cass McCombs
Pitchfork: Interviews: Cass McCombs
The elusive singer/songwriter attempts to talk about his own mysteriousness without giving any of it up and offers insights on death, comedy, and his pair of 2011 albums, WIT'S END and Humor Risk.
·pitchfork.com·
Pitchfork: Interviews: Cass McCombs
a grammar: my mortifying month
a grammar: my mortifying month
‘There needs to be room for music writing that’s not just about the author performing taste and making value judgments. So much of the life of music — the ways we hear it, the things we want from it, and so on — exist in a huge, complicated context, and someone needs to describe that context.’
·agrammar.tumblr.com·
a grammar: my mortifying month
The Morning News: This Is Not a George Plimpton Interview
The Morning News: This Is Not a George Plimpton Interview
‘Every artist deals with critics differently—Richard Ford spitting on Colson Whitehead, for example. But the rule is to avoid direct contact. Not for John Warner, debut novelist, who decided to seek out the man behind his worst review.’
·themorningnews.org·
The Morning News: This Is Not a George Plimpton Interview
Alex Pappademas: Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This
Alex Pappademas: Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This
‘A few years ago, before anyone knew his name, before rap artists from all over the country started hitting him up for music, the rap producer Lex Luger, born Lexus Lewis, now age 20, sat down in his dad’s kitchen in Suffolk, Va., opened a sound-mixing program called Fruity Loops on his laptop and created a new track.’ That was ‘Hard in da Paint’.
·nytimes.com·
Alex Pappademas: Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This
Rortybomb: Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr
Rortybomb: Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr
‘Upon reflection, it is very obvious where the problems are. There’s no universal health care to handle the randomness of poor health. There’s no free higher education to allow people to develop their skills outside the logic and relations of indentured servitude. Our bankruptcy code has been rewritten by the top 1% when instead, it needs to be a defense against their need to shove inequality-driven debt at populations. And finally, there’s no basic income guaranteed to each citizen to keep poverty and poor circumstances at bay. We have piecemeal, leaky versions of each of these in our current liberal social safety net. Having collated all these responses, I think completing these projects should be the ultimate goal of the 99%.’
·rortybomb.wordpress.com·
Rortybomb: Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr
Steven Hyden: The monoculture is a myth (Salon.com)
Steven Hyden: The monoculture is a myth (Salon.com)
‘If we stop looking to the past, we might realize that we’re living in a golden age of music listening and discussion. The Internet has enabled more people to hear more music than at any point in human history. More people are writing about music than ever — on websites, on personal blogs and Facebook pages.’
·entertainment.salon.com·
Steven Hyden: The monoculture is a myth (Salon.com)
The Awl: Why Should We Demonstrate? A Conversation
The Awl: Why Should We Demonstrate? A Conversation
‘once something seizes the public imagination, stuff can happen way faster than you would expect or completely unanticipated things can change everybody’s perception of the situation. So I think what it has the functionality to be is a catalyst for changes we can’t even imagine right now.’
·theawl.com·
The Awl: Why Should We Demonstrate? A Conversation