The New Feudalism
Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism
In Cory Doctorow’s dystopian novel Attack Surface, a disaffected hacker provides a tart postmortem for liberal democracy.(...)
Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism
In Cory Doctorow’s dystopian novel Attack Surface, a disaffected hacker provides a tart postmortem for liberal democracy.(...)
Belgrado’s Intra Apogeum
If superficial nostalgia has an opposite, it’s Barcelona band Belgrado. (...)
50 Years of the Sainsbury Art Collection at UEA
After the pandemic, museum curators claimed that they had to find a new way to tempt the public to view their wares. Albeit on smaller budgets and with the disappearance of patrons with suspect backgrounds in drugs or oil.(...)
The Bizarre World of Aztec NSBM
Bettie Serveert’s Palomine
As I stumbled into the kitchen to turn on the coffee pot, the world outside the window painfully bright, I suddenly heard the voice of Bettie Serveert’s Carol van Dijk in my head: “Down under lock and key/There’s a brain tag to every secret”. I just couldn’t figure out why.(...)
Agnieszka Holland’s Europa Europa
Agnieszka Holland’s 1990 film Europa Europa tells a powerful tale of World War II and the Holocaust, all the more awful for the absurdity it conveys.(...)
Cease & Resist – Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86
Cease & Resist - Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86 takes us back to the heyday of anarcho-punk when DIY values were inextricably bound up with political statements.(...)
Molchat Doma in America
When Belorussian dark wave band Molchat Doma began to play their viral TikTok hit Судно at their recent Tucson, Arizona show, I looked out over the tightly packed crowd filling the floor in front of me and was struck by how happy and how diverse it was, from race to age to fashion.(...)
Three London Shows
Last week was the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Stephen Lawrence. People of my generation wince with pain when his name is mentioned.(...)