J.D. Salinger developed perhaps the most resonant and pervasive portrait of a rebellious youth in the post-war period. That conceptual personage, embodied by the textual life of Holden Caufield, has informed the aesthetic spheres of not only other literary works but also music, film, and visual art. Salinger’s 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye
Could Michael Haneke’s "The White Ribbon" stand in for Antonin Artaud's concept of the "theater of cruelty"?
Electronic writing is defined as any writing that is "digital born," or writing that is meant to be read on a screen, or something other than paper. Electronic writing can also refer to any writing that seeks to address how technology has impacted our lives and our relationship to language, such as twitter poems,
In 1999 Credo Mutwa, a Zulu shaman, told the world of his people’s legend of how fresh water came to the Earth. In the legend a “terrible star” called Mu-sho-sho-no-no came very near the Earth, flipping it “upside down,” in a wild deluge of molten tar and mountain-high waves of water. The star, Mu-sho-sho-no-no,
From Port O'Brien to Bob Dylan: a quest to find musical albums of a correspondent character.
If I had prescient powers about the future course of cutting edge, underground music I would predict the emergence of experimental audiovisual performances in the 2010s (the tens?). In the age of Youtube, where music videos amount to bite-sized clips posted and traded on internet magazines just like this one, there just might not
Milton “Bill” Cooper, when he is reckoned with at all, is usually reckoned with for his tell-all book, Behold A Pale Horse, in which he details 60 years of CIA/NSA coverup of the United States government’s contact with extraterrestrials. To what extent has the United States kept its contact with aliens a secret? According
The BBC has a long history of doing incisive music documentaries as evinced by this post and in the case of Brasil, Brasil this continues to be the case. This documentary covers the birth of Samba, and all the related styles that came as a result of it right on up to the Tropicalia
Outsider music brings the psychologically visceral and the emotionally uncanny. A brief catalogue of our favorites.
Trying to pinpoint the zeitgeist of the naughts, just after that decade has ended, is a challenging if not ultimately misguided task. Our interpretations of history shift and evolve with our present day perspectives. In fact, our discernment of the past tells us more about who we are now and where we are going
