Culture
Mirjana Najchevska / 30 Jan 2023
Awards for Ukraine
Russia in North Macedonia
The Russian government is awarding prizes to Macedonian writers.(...)
John Foster / 27 Jan 2023
The End of Franco
Agitated: Grupos Autónomos and Armed Anticapitalism in Spain, by Joni D.
The 1970s was a decade of broken dreams. The end of the postwar boom brought to a close the era of middle-class liberalism in Europe and North America.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 25 Jan 2023
The Dub Perspective
Rob Smith’s Jungle Archive Collection 1 and 2
How can we think about music historically without turning it into a museum piece, a beautiful butterfly impaled on a pin? Bristol legend Rob Smith’s new Jungle Archive Collection 1 and Jungle Archive Collection 2 pose this question forcefully.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 18 Jan 2023
Sex Against Fascism
Dušan Makavejev’s Innocence Unprotected
Serbian director Dušan Makavejev’s 1968 film Innocence Unprotected manages both to explore the legacy of wartime trauma seriously and to make fun of itself in the process. (...)
Charlie Bertsch / 11 Jan 2023
Distance is Relative
TLM Presents…Vol.2: To Be Discontinued
Thirsty Leaves Music’s new compilation TLM Presents. . .Vol.2: To Be Discontinued makes for invigorating listening. Although most tracks incline towards ambient electronica, there’s enough rhythmic grit to distinguish them from soundscapes that refuse to provide a foreground.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 21 Dec 2022
Sonic Reporting
Everywhere But There, by Joel Schalit
Battleground editor Joel Schalit’s new album Everywhere But There forcefully demonstrates the need for a new kind of political reporting, one which presents the world as it actually is instead of distorting it in the pursuit of profit.(...)
John Foster / 16 Dec 2022
Fantasy Island
Free Market: The History of an Idea, by Jacob Soll
It’s as though the 1980s never happened. For many Gen Xers like me, until the 2008 financial crisis, the free market was the only game in town.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 14 Dec 2022
The Sexism of Everyday Life
Jeanne Dielman, Directed by Chantal Akerman
When Sight and Sound’s once-a-decade poll about the greatest films of all time was published two weeks ago, people were shocked to see Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles at the top.(...)
John Foster / 09 Dec 2022
Return to Politics
Power and Resistance, by Yoshiyuki Sato
No stranger to hyperbole, Slavoj Žižek once described an event as a reframing of the present, “a radical change in this reality itself”.(...)