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Politics

Art and politics have always been co-constitutive. How politics affect not just art but artists, and how we, as agents of change, can affect politics.

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“It already has”: Speed Racer and impossible hope

Self-proclaimed materialist theologian Ian Nutting performs an exegesis on what he considers the greatest film of all time.

February 16, 2023
Politics/Academic-ish

Block party for Asian America

Ethnomusicologist Lei X Ouyang considers how informed and intentional care for Asian America(ns) within and beyond institutions can create space for communities to survive and thrive.

November 16, 2022
Politics/Academic-ish

“You Ain’t No King”: Black masculinity and political satire in Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly”

In her analysis of “Wesley’s Theory” from Kendrick Lamar’s album "To Pimp a Butterfly," Tori Tyler explores the expression of Black masculinity in Hip-hop and Rap and argues for the validity of these genres in academic study.

August 16, 2022
Politics/Academic-ish

The Green Knight makes us feel good about race, but at what cost?

Historian Andrew Schumacher Bethke examines colonial hybridity in David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021).

September 22, 2021

Writers

  • Editors

    Winter 2024: Media mélange
  • Ian Nutting

    “It already has”: Speed Racer and impossible hope
  • Noël Wan

    ChatGPT & me
  • Mona Sangesland

    Mapping the Nueva Canción Chilena
  • Andrew Bethke

    Vulgar academia: Why knowledge production needs a class war
  • Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena

    Passing the mic from white middle-aged spiritual liberation to post-college travel utopia
  • Brandon Smith

    Living burnout in retrospect
  • Vijay Rajan

    Decolonizing myself, The Jungle Book, and Rudy, too

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