1   | Detroit abandonded spaces a blank state to the surface of things |
So much has already been written about this city, its abandonment, the blight, the $100 houses for sale, and the mass exodus of its citizens. And while there are fragments of truth to those statements, they are not what defines the city. They are more hyperbole, that in effect, unfairly dismiss a place that, in reality, has a citizenry that has not surrendered, but instead is expansive and entirel...
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1 | Bertrand Russell - Why I Am Not A Christian |
A speech given by Bertrand Russell, March 6, 1927, National Secular Society, South London branch, Battersea Town Hall …......... “As your chairman has told you, the subject about which I am to speak tonight is “Why I Am Not a Christian.” Perhaps it would be as well, first of all, to try to make out what one means by the word “Christian.” It is used these days in...
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1 | The Oldest Written Melody in History c.1400 BC |
This unique video, features my arrangement of the 3400 year old “Hurrian Hymn no.6”, which was discovered in Ugarit ,ancient northern Canaan (now modern Syria) in the early 1950s, and was preserved for 3400 years on a clay tablet, written in the Cuneiform text of the ancient Hurrian language – it is THE oldest written song yet known! Respect, to the amazing ancient culture of Syr...
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1 | Temporary Hegemonic Zones + First NSK Citizen's Congress + *Victory Under the Sun (1988)* documentar |
Attending a sprawling congress for Neue Slowenische Kunst’s imaginary state proved to be a worthwhile exercise in traumatic participation. While it is almost impossible to encapsulate what the Slovenian art movement Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) has undertaken, in all its manifestations, since forming in 1983, we could perhaps describe it best as an aesthetic apparatus for collective diagnosi...
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1 | When Kurt Cobain met William Burroughs + free album |
Although “The “Priest” They Called Him” might be the most obscure thing in Kurt Cobain’s discography, it’s probably the best selling musical collaboration of William S, Burroughs’s recording career. Basically, in 1992, Cobain contacted his hero, Burroughs about doing something together. Burroughs sent him a tape of a reading he’d done of a short story originally published in his Ex...
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1 | Birth (of the Image) of a Nation: Jean-Luc Godard in Mozambique + *Kuxa Kanema* documentary |
While Jean-Luc Godard’s life and work has received a plethora of critical attention, a relatively uncharted episode occurred in 1977–1978, when, at the behest of the Samora Machel government, the filmmaker worked in Mozambique to assist in the establishment of the country’s first television station. Having newly acquired its independence from Portugal, the avowedly Marxist government of Mach...
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1 | How to Subvert Institutional Authority Through Graffiti and Other Tactics in 13 Steps |
One of the first lessons of magic(k) that we learn as children is that words and symbols have power. Abracadabra. Hocus Pocus. A five-pointed star. A four-leaf clover. As we get older, this primary notion quickly degrades and often becomes the source of one of the first dismissive tendencies towards magic(k) that arises amongst adults. Too many hokey movies and failed attempts to levitate with an ...
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1 | John Zerzan - Future Primitive interview + *Dead Society* exp. movie |
John Zerzan first shot into celebrity philosopher status in 1995 after the New York Times featured him in 1995 as a supporter of the Unabomber’s anti-technology doctrine. He has since become a leading light of the primitivist movement in the US. In an exclusive interview with DNA, he explains why modern civilization is fundamentally anti-human, ‘green’ technology is ‘psycho...
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1 | *The Problem With Music* by Steve Albini + Almost interview + free Shellac albums |
Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey ...
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1 | Abbie Hoffman: Steal (download free) This Book + *Steal This Movie!* free movie about Hoffman |
Abbie Hoffman was the stand-up comedian of the Anti-War Movement, beloved by everyone who appreciated high jinks in their dogma, freedom of thought in their self-evident truths. The book includes advice on such topics as growing cannabis, starting a pirate radio station, living in a commune, stealing food, shoplifting, stealing credit cards, preparing a legal defense, making pipe bombs, and obtain...
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