Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Freddie Gibbs, "Cataracts (Live Session)."
(I just heard of this rapper and song. It was advertised right after an Iggy Azalea video I was watching.)
It samples "Teach Me How" by Wee, another song and group I've just heard of.
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Has the Long Emergency Finally Come to Pass ...
in the form of a plague?
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And I just realized another anniversary has passed of this blog's founding. In 2006, did anyone think we'd be in the midst of a worldwide pandemic?
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And I just realized another anniversary has passed of this blog's founding. In 2006, did anyone think we'd be in the midst of a worldwide pandemic?
Monday, March 16, 2020
Trouble at Truthdig
Senior editors and contributors at @Truthdig announced a work stoppage to protest unfair labor conditions and the attempt by the publisher to remove the Editor-in-Chief and co-owner of the site Robert Scheer. https://t.co/OSkOHs8zJg
— Chris Hedges (@ChrisLynnHedges) March 12, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Pantha du Prince, "Approach in a Breeze"
It was last night, as I browsed the front page of All Music Guide, when I first heard of Pantha du Prince and his new album, Conference of Trees. According to the site, this album "opens up into more acoustic ambience than ever before."
Ignatius
Jadakiss has just released a new album and it includes the song "Me", released late last year as a single.
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Sounds About (Left)
This seems like a good description of various left media.
Forums.Hipinion.com: All Things Left of Liberal
by genghis sean » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:55 pm
What are some radical left/strong left periodicals to read that are well written and more professional/academic than things like Raw Story
New Left Review - http://newleftreview.org/ has been the standard bearer of the academic left for much of the past 45 years or so. almost all of the prominent leftist intellectuals have been published in it and its usually populated by many of the leading figures of the academic left from issue to issue. its a journal though so accessibility varies greatly from article to article. New Left Review's publishing arm is Verso Books ( http://www.versobooks.com/ ), a major and fantastic source for Left publications (lots of good stuff regularly available on their website as well). A great deal of the books published in this thread are published by Verso.
A longstanding fixture of american democratic socialism is In These Times ( http://www.inthesetimes.com/ ), notable amongst other things for being Kurt Vonnegut's favorite publication. They would stand more to the left of Mother Jones, which sort of straddles a democratic socialist and social-democratic bent, and The Nation, who is further right and mainly articulates social-democratic and left liberal sentiment. I do actually read both Mother Jones and The Nation with some regularity, they can have good content even if they're both guilty of the shallow defining-ourselves-as-just-against-republican-stupidity deal that defines far too much of the liberal media.
you've probably already seen a lot of references to Jacobin ( http://www.jacobinmag.com ) in this thread and it along with The New Inquiry (though TNI specializes more in cultural critique even if I would define it as generally left of liberal) are defined by their superior writing, accessibility, mixture of web/print content, and generally written by people of hipinion's general generational bracket.
A bit British-oriented but still tons of great academic-oriented content from the newish New Left Project ( http://www.newleftproject.org/ ). Famous for its longstanding association with Noam Chomsky is Z magazine ( http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag ), which leans libertarian socialist/academic anarchist. I don't check their content super frequently but I've read a lot of good things from them.
Truthout ( http://truth-out.org/ ) is certainly the leading Left source for sorta Huffington Post style amalgamated news and opinion. I make sure to check it out everday. Reader Supported News ( http://readersupportednews.org/ ) is another quality source in this vain. Both of them are ostensibly 'progressive' oriented though certainly left of liberal. Both Common Dreams ( http://www.commondreams.org/ ) and Truthdig ( http://www.truthdig.com ) are sources of original content in a Democracy Now! vein. Oh yeah, Democracy Now! is always a good source of video ( http://www.democracynow.org/ ).
Maybe my favorite video-based site is The Real News, which offers very sober and serious analysis, usually packaged into 10 minute pieces. I'm a big fan of these guys and especially Paul Jay. This isn't received wisdom, hearsay and rash inferences - if a point is to be made its usually going to be established. Lots of good economics content too for econ nerds like me. Their collection of youtubes that they gather is also a valuable source.
For a mixture of art and Left politics there is Guernica Magazine ( http://www.guernicamag.com/ ), Idiom Magazine ( http://idiommag.com/ ) and Art Threat ( http://artthreat.net/ ) all of which I would certainly recommend.
For more ostensibly Marxist academic analysis there is Platypus 1917 ( http://platypus1917.org/ ), an organization who hosts panels and fora as well as publishes the Platypus Review, which is worth reading every month its published. I'm in the midst of trying to get a Platypus chapter up and operational in montreal and know a bunch from Platypus personally. Mostly of a post-Trotskyist bent but really the publish a very wide range of left of liberal views and content. To see what the diehard Maoists are up to these days there's the Kasama Project ( http://kasamaproject.org/ ), whom I really don't identify with but I often find it interesting to see what they're thinking about and discussing - usually lots to do with Nepal and South America.
I know I'm missing a lot of shit right now but I think that's a pretty decent start.
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Forums.Hipinion.com: All Things Left of Liberal
by genghis sean » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:55 pm
What are some radical left/strong left periodicals to read that are well written and more professional/academic than things like Raw Story
New Left Review - http://newleftreview.org/ has been the standard bearer of the academic left for much of the past 45 years or so. almost all of the prominent leftist intellectuals have been published in it and its usually populated by many of the leading figures of the academic left from issue to issue. its a journal though so accessibility varies greatly from article to article. New Left Review's publishing arm is Verso Books ( http://www.versobooks.com/ ), a major and fantastic source for Left publications (lots of good stuff regularly available on their website as well). A great deal of the books published in this thread are published by Verso.
A longstanding fixture of american democratic socialism is In These Times ( http://www.inthesetimes.com/ ), notable amongst other things for being Kurt Vonnegut's favorite publication. They would stand more to the left of Mother Jones, which sort of straddles a democratic socialist and social-democratic bent, and The Nation, who is further right and mainly articulates social-democratic and left liberal sentiment. I do actually read both Mother Jones and The Nation with some regularity, they can have good content even if they're both guilty of the shallow defining-ourselves-as-just-against-republican-stupidity deal that defines far too much of the liberal media.
you've probably already seen a lot of references to Jacobin ( http://www.jacobinmag.com ) in this thread and it along with The New Inquiry (though TNI specializes more in cultural critique even if I would define it as generally left of liberal) are defined by their superior writing, accessibility, mixture of web/print content, and generally written by people of hipinion's general generational bracket.
A bit British-oriented but still tons of great academic-oriented content from the newish New Left Project ( http://www.newleftproject.org/ ). Famous for its longstanding association with Noam Chomsky is Z magazine ( http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag ), which leans libertarian socialist/academic anarchist. I don't check their content super frequently but I've read a lot of good things from them.
Truthout ( http://truth-out.org/ ) is certainly the leading Left source for sorta Huffington Post style amalgamated news and opinion. I make sure to check it out everday. Reader Supported News ( http://readersupportednews.org/ ) is another quality source in this vain. Both of them are ostensibly 'progressive' oriented though certainly left of liberal. Both Common Dreams ( http://www.commondreams.org/ ) and Truthdig ( http://www.truthdig.com ) are sources of original content in a Democracy Now! vein. Oh yeah, Democracy Now! is always a good source of video ( http://www.democracynow.org/ ).
Maybe my favorite video-based site is The Real News, which offers very sober and serious analysis, usually packaged into 10 minute pieces. I'm a big fan of these guys and especially Paul Jay. This isn't received wisdom, hearsay and rash inferences - if a point is to be made its usually going to be established. Lots of good economics content too for econ nerds like me. Their collection of youtubes that they gather is also a valuable source.
For a mixture of art and Left politics there is Guernica Magazine ( http://www.guernicamag.com/ ), Idiom Magazine ( http://idiommag.com/ ) and Art Threat ( http://artthreat.net/ ) all of which I would certainly recommend.
For more ostensibly Marxist academic analysis there is Platypus 1917 ( http://platypus1917.org/ ), an organization who hosts panels and fora as well as publishes the Platypus Review, which is worth reading every month its published. I'm in the midst of trying to get a Platypus chapter up and operational in montreal and know a bunch from Platypus personally. Mostly of a post-Trotskyist bent but really the publish a very wide range of left of liberal views and content. To see what the diehard Maoists are up to these days there's the Kasama Project ( http://kasamaproject.org/ ), whom I really don't identify with but I often find it interesting to see what they're thinking about and discussing - usually lots to do with Nepal and South America.
I know I'm missing a lot of shit right now but I think that's a pretty decent start.
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Friday, January 31, 2020
Some Tweets and Retweets From the American Catholic Historical Association Twitter Account
Things to look forward to in 2020? The History of Christianity’s forthcoming CFP. We have it all from Race in the Middile Ages, to US elections, 1619 & relg, #DevotionalStuff in antiquity and now, to teaching the BIG Christian History survey. Stay tuned!
— History of Christianity AAR (@HistOfXianity) January 10, 2020
On Tuesday, myself, Dr James Kelly and Professor Michael Questier were part of a Roundtable at the IHR Religious History of Britain seminar. We discussed what work is currently being done in early modern British Catholic history, where it should be headed, and what needs more pic.twitter.com/swB9C6EKn6
— Dr Eilish Gregory (@EilishGregory) January 10, 2020
For those not at #ACHA20 or who didn’t pick up a copy, the just released white paper coming out of 2018 Envisioning the Future of Catholic Religious Archives conference @BostonCollege @achahistory 1/2 pic.twitter.com/RP0e2al0gA
— Kyle B Roberts (@kylebroberts) January 5, 2020
The project's James Kelly is one of the panellists, with @EilishGregory and Michael Questier, for a discussion on 'Towards a fresh agenda for research on post-Reformation British Catholicism' at the @IHR_RelHisBrit this coming Tuesday 7 Jan. Details here: https://t.co/Qr3jBX2A3Z
— Monks in Motion (@monksinmotion) January 3, 2020
Alexander O'Neal, "If You Were Here Tonight."
I first heard of this song a few Saturdays ago, when an excerpt of the video was memed in a Tariq Nasheed tweet.
Jadakiss, "ME"
Samples Peabo Bryson's song (at a sped-up pace), "Give Me Your Love", from the album Don't Play With Fire (Capitol, 1982). Again, I first learned of this song thirty minutes to midnight on Thursday.
Paris Match, "A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)" and "Digging Your Scene."
Eleven-fifteen p.m. Thursday. I learned of this group because it was mentioned for its cover of "Digging Your Scene" (see below) in the Wikipedia page for that song.
The Blow Monkeys, "Digging Your Scene."
To think I first heard of this song and band at eleven p.m. Thursday.
O'Chi Brown, "Whenever You Need Somebody."
It was on New Year's Day that I learned Rick Astley's song was actually a cover of O'Chi Brown's 1985 original.
Marika Gombitová - Ateliér duše
I first learned of this singer Wednesday night via Wikipedia's category of 1987 albums. And I first heard and heard of this song Thursday.
Celine Dion, "I'm Loving Every Moment With You."
To think I first heard this song earlier this month when I borrowed the Unison CD.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Kunstler: Forecast 2020--Whirlin' and Swirlin'
Kunstler: Forecast 2020--Whirlin' and Swirlin'
Read it in its entirety at the above link. An excerpt:
Relations with Other Lands
The RussiaGate hysteria worked effectively the past three years to obstruct the chance for repairing relations between our countries. That and the earlier idiotic 2014 intervention in Ukraine under Mr. Obama, which prompted Russia’s annexation of Crimea and fighting in the Donbass. All of that was unnecessary and was carried off just because we were determined to cram Ukraine into NATO — or, at least, not let it join the Russia-centric Customs Union. In the process, we left Ukraine badly damaged. Can we please stop creating more damage? They have always been Russia’s stepchild and always will be. Can we get our American mind right on that?
I suspect Mr. Trump would still like to rectify the situation, especially our relations with Russia. We have some outstanding interests in common, starting with a wish to discourage Islamic maniacs from blowing things up and cutting people’s heads off. How about we try cooperating to manage that problem? Russia is not our economic rival. Vast as its land-mass is, Russia’s economy is not much bigger than the economy of Texas. They possess a very potent nuclear arsenal, with new hypersonic delivery systems that were probably developed to temper our paranoid narratives about them since 2016. War is not an option.
There’s a fair chance in 2020 that Mr. Trump may find an opening to reduce tensions between the US and Russia, even if he is being repeatedly impeached and the S & P index falls by half. Ukraine itself may be a hopeless basket case, its destiny: to become a quasi-medieval agricultural backwater. Anyway, it’s really none of our business, any more than the occupation of Afghanistan was, or the intervention in Iraq was, or Vietnam before that. For starters, though, can we just agree that going to war with Russia is not a good idea and stop militating for it? Liberals used to blame the Military-Industrial Complex for thumping the war drum. Now they’re doing it.
Further temptations to intervene in foreign lands will only accelerate the bankruptcy of the USA and drive a quicker, more dramatic journey down to a much lower standard-of-living. Anyway, with all the other elements of the long emergency proceeding, the trend in 2020 will be for nations to be preoccupied with their own business, and if it doesn’t work out at a national level it might lead to more breakaway regions attempting self-government. Catalan is still burbling away, Italy still has a north/south problem, Scotland still has a mind to dissociate from the UK. Contraction, or de-growth, or declining prosperity — however you want to say it — goes hand-in-hand with a smaller scale of management. Bigness itself is going out.
[...]
I pretty much covered Europe in the Economics section. The main warning for Europe 2020 is that the international rules-based liberal order of the West was made possible in a post-war world by decades of rising energy inputs and rising prosperity. As that reverses, the assumptions behind that order will cease to hold it together. The formation of a new set of operating principles will probably entail a period of disorder, perhaps long in duration.
[...]
There you have the Forecast 2020. We all know it’s an exercise in futility, but it’s one of those unavoidable rituals of human existence. Good luck to all! You may be interested in my forthcoming book, out in March, which is a deep-dive update of where we’re at and a series of portraits of interesting people leading alt-lifestyles in these uncertain times.
Read it in its entirety at the above link. An excerpt:
Relations with Other Lands
The RussiaGate hysteria worked effectively the past three years to obstruct the chance for repairing relations between our countries. That and the earlier idiotic 2014 intervention in Ukraine under Mr. Obama, which prompted Russia’s annexation of Crimea and fighting in the Donbass. All of that was unnecessary and was carried off just because we were determined to cram Ukraine into NATO — or, at least, not let it join the Russia-centric Customs Union. In the process, we left Ukraine badly damaged. Can we please stop creating more damage? They have always been Russia’s stepchild and always will be. Can we get our American mind right on that?
I suspect Mr. Trump would still like to rectify the situation, especially our relations with Russia. We have some outstanding interests in common, starting with a wish to discourage Islamic maniacs from blowing things up and cutting people’s heads off. How about we try cooperating to manage that problem? Russia is not our economic rival. Vast as its land-mass is, Russia’s economy is not much bigger than the economy of Texas. They possess a very potent nuclear arsenal, with new hypersonic delivery systems that were probably developed to temper our paranoid narratives about them since 2016. War is not an option.
There’s a fair chance in 2020 that Mr. Trump may find an opening to reduce tensions between the US and Russia, even if he is being repeatedly impeached and the S & P index falls by half. Ukraine itself may be a hopeless basket case, its destiny: to become a quasi-medieval agricultural backwater. Anyway, it’s really none of our business, any more than the occupation of Afghanistan was, or the intervention in Iraq was, or Vietnam before that. For starters, though, can we just agree that going to war with Russia is not a good idea and stop militating for it? Liberals used to blame the Military-Industrial Complex for thumping the war drum. Now they’re doing it.
Further temptations to intervene in foreign lands will only accelerate the bankruptcy of the USA and drive a quicker, more dramatic journey down to a much lower standard-of-living. Anyway, with all the other elements of the long emergency proceeding, the trend in 2020 will be for nations to be preoccupied with their own business, and if it doesn’t work out at a national level it might lead to more breakaway regions attempting self-government. Catalan is still burbling away, Italy still has a north/south problem, Scotland still has a mind to dissociate from the UK. Contraction, or de-growth, or declining prosperity — however you want to say it — goes hand-in-hand with a smaller scale of management. Bigness itself is going out.
[...]
I pretty much covered Europe in the Economics section. The main warning for Europe 2020 is that the international rules-based liberal order of the West was made possible in a post-war world by decades of rising energy inputs and rising prosperity. As that reverses, the assumptions behind that order will cease to hold it together. The formation of a new set of operating principles will probably entail a period of disorder, perhaps long in duration.
[...]
There you have the Forecast 2020. We all know it’s an exercise in futility, but it’s one of those unavoidable rituals of human existence. Good luck to all! You may be interested in my forthcoming book, out in March, which is a deep-dive update of where we’re at and a series of portraits of interesting people leading alt-lifestyles in these uncertain times.
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