by kspence | Sep 28, 2012 | Imaging the City, Neoliberalism, The Future of the City
Of the videos from MODCAR’s Imaging Detroit project I’ve seen so far, this is one of the most frustrating. But at the same time it was just good enough to provide inspiration for an essay I’m working on for Nobody’s Coming....
by kspence | Sep 27, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Pop Culture |
Denzel Washington is on the cover of October’s GQ magazine as part of a press junket for his 42nd (!!) movie. Great interview. But I want to focus on two quotes. The first deals with Whitney Houston: What did you feel when Whitney died? Whitney was my girl, and...
by kspence | Sep 26, 2012 | Class and Politics, Neoliberalism, Sports |
But of course that’s not the real story. Why are the original refs being replaced in the first place? The struggle between the owners and the referees is part and parcel of a much larger series of struggles between labor and capital. In this case, the two...
by kspence | Sep 25, 2012 | Neoliberalism |
On February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman (a self-appointed neighborhood watchman) shot and killed Trayvon Martin, a black teenager in a gated community in Sanford, Florida, while the teenager walked from the grocery store to his father’s girlfriend’s house. According to...
by kspence | Sep 24, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Culture
Idris Elba of The Wire (and most recently Luther) is a DJ and has been emersed in the British club scene for decades. In the documentary Clubbing Changed the World he makes a number of powerful claims about the role electronic music played in popular culture and in...
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