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MEANS 4: Participatory Economics (Magazine)
Issue 4 of our magazine: 76 color pages of essays, artworks, scores and music relating to our theme of community, economics, and capitalism. Includes free DL of an accompanying album.Sunbathing in the shallow end of late-stage capitalism, it is easy to think of ‘the economy’ as an abstract imposition, something that directs the tenor of our lives but over which we except little control. Mortgages, credit scores, inflation, the stock exchange, each some fiscal boogieman that lives forever in the…
Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Book)
DeForrest Brown, Jr.’s Assembling a Black Counter Culture presents a comprehensive account of techno with a focus on the history of Black experiences in industrialized labor systems—repositioning the genre as a unique form of Black musical and cultural production.
Brown traces the genealogy and current developments in techno, locating its origins in the 1980s in the historically emblematic city of Detroit and the broader landscape of Black musical forms. Reaching back from the transatlantic slav…
Musique improvisée et questions politiques (Book)
*OBS! book is in French language* Shortly after being introduced to improvised music, Frantz Loriot became interested in its discourse and its political dimension. Influenced by anarchist, anti-capitalist and postcolonial thinkers, he gradually developed his own approach to the practice of musical improvisation. His reflections led him to question the musician Bertrand Denzler. During this interview, the latter discusses various aspects of this practice, including the relationship between sounds…