Amongst the wreckage of the past fifty years, one of the fundamental erasures, or perhaps the co-opting, of our diversity of ideological thought has come from the slow decline of subculture, transgression, and punk rock values. During my lifetime, I have seen anti-authority ideologies reconstituted into a hot-topic t-shirt carousel. It plays out, when it […]
I have just returned from a workshop trip from São Paulo, Brazil, a vertiginous and bustling city. My experience in returning from the city has been marked by an extended rumination on my experiences there. I am still processing the city, its architecture, and its artists whom I was very fortunate to meet in […]
I was confronted with three parts of a mental soundtrack while paging through Thiago Dezan’s new book When I Hear The That Trumpet Sound (Selo Turvo, 2021, ed. 200). The first track based on title and the book’s black endpapers and the ominous black cover was Behemoth’s Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel, a rich and […]