[under construction]
A new thing is to write reviews of albums I ingest. This idea is intended as a way to more fully contemplate each listening experience, and to spend more time paying good attention to recorded music. Modelled loosely after my esteemed friend and colleague’s – https://jakestakes77.wordpress.com/ – in which he reviews books and as a side effect increases retention of said book, I will write about records I am enjoying.
Note: as I move towards being an unapologetic revolutionary I recognize that with any such movement there would need to be a corresponding counter-hegemonic education campaign. My piece of that, for now, will be this place.
Links
This is a good old-fashioned links page.
In early-2000s internet, instead of 3 or 4 major social media hubs we had web pages–thousands of them. And there was mystery around every corner. Consumption was more active, and you would choose to look at things, rather than have it chosen for you by a tailored algorithm. If you had a feed, it was an RSS feed that you curated yourself from different web pages. In the good old days you’d seek out the reading you wanted to do.
This is a page of various links to readings I think are really good. Perhaps you’ll find them stimulating too. With the statement “links are not necessarily reflective of my opinion,” I don’t mean to use the disingenuous trick of situating my provocation in some nether-universe, disembodied from responsibility that sits outside reality: my positions on politics, pedagogy, and art will overlap significantly with what you find here. However, you have to talk to a person to begin to really understand their opinions and politics, so with that in mind, if you find something too provocative, talk to me first before going around telling tales out of school.
YouTube videos are considered “reading” for the purposes of this links page.
Revolutionary Thought
Any serious revolutionary must wrestle with the Marxist-Leninist theoretical tradition, which is arguably the only tradition from which capitalism has ever suffered a bloody nose on a large and lasting scale.
https://mlrh.org/study-materials
Breht O’Shea’s humble podcast, Revolutionary Left Radio, is a mainstay of revolutionary thought, offering analysis, interviews and primers in many areas of revolutionary thinking, again from a Marxist-Leninist tradition, but open to other modes of analysis.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com
Media Analysis
Citations Needed (podcast) – For my understanding of how legacy media operates, this has been engaging and invaluable. They frequently do quantitative analyses proving their claims of bias: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/
Culture, Philosophy & Psychoanalysis
The podcast that took me the longest to start to understand was Why Theory? a podcast that, depending on the week, is about a psychoanalytic concept (the most alien field to me), a socio-cultural concept, or a film or television show (or genre). I’m sure there are other episode types. Hosts Ryan Engley and Todd McGowan certainly occupy a left position, but come at things more broadly with some hefty intellects (like, really). There’s a danger of getting into theory you already agree with and these guys won’t let that happen!
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/why-theory/id1299863834
Film & TV
Music
