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So What’s Next?: A Soundtrack for Things Yet to Come
In the here and now, we bemoan the failed promise of keeping up with the Jetsons, even as we busy ourselves with content-on-demand, and real-time newsfeeds packed with blips and tweets. Our present day feels like a bland caricature of the future envisioned by the generations just before us. Our hyper-globalized world, with its post-Fordist [...]
Consuming the Class Crowd
Paolo Cruz on the alleged Third World hipster elite, and the possibilities of a hypothetical TV series about the same.
Ballad of the Dark Continent
On Africa, “Africa”, and the limits of first contact via pop media By PAOLO JOSE CRUZ DISCUSSED: omnipresent karaoke anthems, “Africa” by Toto as proxy for ‘World Music’, eco-tourism in Africa, romanticizing ancient civilizations, the politics of outreach travel By now, it sounds thoroughly familiar, especially to veterans of drunken karaoke like me: the insistent [...]
Consider This
(Or How I Lost My Religion to the Alternative Nation) by PAOLO JOSE CRUZ Discussed: urban folk mythology, Catholic metalhead ennui, Michael Stipe as unconventional rock icon, personal salvation Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s been well over fifteen years since my last Confession. I realize that’s quite a long time, but please, consider [...]
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