After Nature, A Politics for the Anthropocene
Purdy, like some of the internal agitators who are used for
“green baiting”, do not fully understand or appreciate that Nature was given to them.
pas de dull
shade-prefaced letter begging and bump accusations,
post-facial portraiture and black citational business
On Kathy Acker’s Umbilical Ties to New York’s Downtown
Simply put, even if punks had an acute awareness of “the poverty of artists’ lives”( to adapt a phrase from Situationism), they were lacking in a forceful historical understanding on which to base their reading of the present.
Zedd to Gentrifiers: Drop Dead
That was a nice time to come. In the mid-70s it was quiet and it was very cheap to live. And there was no hype. But I found it very depressing. Then later everything started moving. I think cheap apartments are an essential element in the creation of a counterculture. I think so And landlordism is an enemy of art. It's an enemy of civilization, really.
Matthew Shipp in Conversation with Steve Dalachinsky
What creates new ideas within me in such situations, new things to do, is that I play
with my trio because it is my trio and I have a long history with Roscoe so I am
uniquely positioned in this case to find the bridge between these two subsets to
make it into a cohesive whole as a quartet concept.
Cup Runneth Over
Let your cup runneth over
Over me
And with the crashing of waves
My heart to yours
With the song of the wind
Why the Fight?
I pledge allegiance to the
blood soaked flag of the
Dys-membered
Dys-United
Members Only
states of Un-America
A Brilliant Golden Sunset: Sam Shepard’s Spy of the First Person
In the greater context of Spy and the mythic stature of its author, this is
an existential plea—can we, with the stories we tell, give some order to the chaos of even
a single life?
The Lost Giant of American Literature (New Yorker)
Kelley may have suffered most from the relentless conveyor belt of life, which constantly carries new things into sight and propels older ones away.
Teresa’s Story: God Puts People in Our Paths to Lead Us to Him
When Teresa Rosenthal was a young girl, she witnessed her father’s physical abuse of her mother, and it affected her deeply.
Louise Thompson Patterson and the Long Tradition of Radical Struggle (Pop Matters)
Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice is the finest sort of biography: impeccably researched and chock full of detail, it also compels the reader by crafting a powerful image of the world in which Louise and her comrades lived and struggled.
Ai Weiwei’s Good Fences Installation Fails to Stand On Its Own
One of the most intriguing and complicated aspects of Ai Weiwei's work is the fact that one can go from utter indifference to tear-struck awe in a matter of seconds
Review of "Birds of Wonder" by Cynthia Robinson
Birds of Wonder, the debut novel by Cynthia Robinson, opens with Detective Jes Ashton’s early morning scramble, in the front seat of her car, for dry shampoo, a toothbrush, and her uniform pants, after an assignation with a one-night-stand whose name she can’t remember.
Phoebe's family's Christmas card
We at Tribes are loving this beautiful Christmas card from the family of one of our most beloved volunteers, Phoebe. Check it out!