Architects of Propaganda People are willing to give up their freedom for the luxury of artificial attachment. The architects of propaganda have molded their propaganda models to fit the modern-day, but it’s the same principle that Edward Bernays had warned about in the 1920s. Facebook is well aware of these details. They model their artificial …
This week we return to an old Writ Large Press stomping ground — DTLA. Of course, downtown Los Angeles is the site of many of our past events and experiments — #90X90LA, DTLABODEGA, Grand Park BookFest. Peter Woods is curating, producing & hosting Race, Politics & Poetics this Thursday night (12/8) at The Los Angeles …
Soulidifly Productions, a film company with a mission to produce meaningful, uplifting stories that are entertaining and beautifully told, has partnered with Freestyle Digital Media to release 1 Angry Black Man, available to audiences everywhere on DVD and on-demand starting June 5, 2020. “The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to amplify our film distribution in …
Read Intimate Whirlwinds, Part I *** We carried the hyper masculine lifestyle as if it was the only way to go, wearing it like a badge of honor. The neighborhood boys would come together to smoke weed and drink; listening to Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter II, Dedication II & Drought series, Eminem’s entire catalogue (at …
“If you want to enjoy the rewards of being loved, you also have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.” – Tim Kreider Alienated – Lead Poison Secrets. Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others. It can also be something that is not properly understood; …
What Are You? I remember as a kid hating that I wasn’t “more Asian” and that my skin wasn’t fair. I begged most my life to have pin-straight hair. I was a “hoarder’s cluttered garage”-style hodgepodge of cultural paradox and ethnic shocks. My Hispanic, Black, white, and native roots mélange-d with an off-color Taiwanese stain …
Early in the evening of November 8, 2016, before the shock had set in, before the ballots were counted, before all the states had even reported results, before Trump had even given his victory speech, a mysterious directive suddenly emanated from our nation’s media outlets: Don’t call Trump Voters racist. The very idea of it …
Although I have been interested in and written poetry for over a decade, I have not toiled long in the poetry bureaucratic apparatus. I use ‘the poetry bureaucratic apparatus’ to mean its administrative wing – organising readings, promoting prizes, reading submissions, applying for grants, editing posts, doing social media, paying poets. This bureaucratic apparatus is …
Theatrical conventions are shattered in three Off-Broadway productions as playwrights explore the hot button topics of race, gender, and religion. Two are contemporary (Robert O’Hara’s Barbecue and Lucas Hnath’s The Christians) and one is over three decades old (Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine), but the latter is still the boldest and most innovative. Churchill’s works have …
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If the success of Orange Is the New Black offers any indication, it seems fair (and gross) to say that prison has become “pop”—for a Twitter moment, anyway. Even the cover of the Economist June 20-24 proclaims, “Jailhouse Nation: 2.3 million reasons to fix America’s prison problem.” Progressive-glam MSNBC has been boosting its ratings with weekends of Lockup since 2005. Everybody (white? middle class?) …
Like the invention of ‘the homosexual’ in the nineteenth century that Michel Foucault, David Halperin and others write about, the discursive production of an individual (‘racist’) shifts the focus from the act to the identity of the author. It is not so much a question of what one has done but an essence, an immutable …
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By R.D. Wood with Joseph Beuys As many readers will be aware conceptual poet Kenneth Goldsmith was recently embroiled in a scandal about presenting an autopsy report of Ferguson teen Michael Brown as poetry at a Brown University event. This piece can be read as part of his ongoing project of reframing language but it …
By using and redefining racial categories in new ways, these contributions show us how to mobilize race in public and private.
An excerpt from ‘On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom,’
Hot tip for LA-based Cultural Weekly readers: Get to REDCAT on Thursday, March 20, at 8:30pm to see Fred Moten in a provocative public appearance. Known as a compelling and brilliant speaker and performer, Fred Moten works at the intersection of performance, poetry and critical theory. In his lecture “The Sustain: Blackness and Poetry,” Moten …
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