John Foster / 09 Jun 2023
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.(...)
Culture
Charlie Bertsch / 07 Jun 2023
History in Service of Anarchism
Belgrado’s Intra Apogeum
If superficial nostalgia has an opposite, it’s Barcelona band Belgrado. (...)
Henrietta Foster / 06 Jun 2023
Art is Touching
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.(...)
Alex Gendler / 03 Jun 2023
Aryan Aztlan
The Bizarre World of Aztec NSBM
When eight people were gunned down at a Texas outdoor mall in May by a guy with a swastika tattoo and a social media account full of racist rants, it seemed like a pretty clear-cut case of far-right terrorism.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 31 May 2023
The Better 1990s
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.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 24 May 2023
Jewish and European
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.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 17 May 2023
The Great Revolt
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.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 05 May 2023
The Long 1980s
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.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 04 May 2023
Art Against Racism
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.(...)