Archive for 'poetry'
Eat Yo’ Beats: Ana Tijoux & The Political Power of Self-Examination
Ana Tijoux was born Anamaría Merino in 1977 in Paris, because her Chilean father and French mother were in exile from Pinochet’s brutal military dictatorship. When her mother’s job as a social worker put her in touch with hip-hop as an 8-year old, it was love. At 14, Ana and her family returned to Chile [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2011 under ethics, etymology, expatriate, exploitation, expression, fascism, fat beats, hip hop, hip hop culture, identity, identity politics, invisibility, latin america, latino, mc, old school, oppression, poetry, politics, self, self awareness, social construction, social inequality.
Tags: ana tijoux, beats, black panthers, boxing, chicago gangsters, chile, christian, close reading, crime, democracy, devil, dissent, eden, eiffel tower, etymology, eve, fascism, france, garden, Hannah Arendt, hip hop, hip-hop is dead, hoodlums, hoods, IAM, identity, identity politics, innocence, Jay-Z, joe louis, l'ecole du micro d'argent, Lauryn Hill, LL Cool J, makiza, Mama said knock you out, man in the mirror, mc, MIA, michael jackson, nas, old frisian, Paris, pinochet, politics, power, prostitution, rap, rhymes, rock the bells, sampling, self-examination, serpents, sly and the family stone, snakes, social injustice, social justice, social work, star wars, the kkk, wu tang
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Flarf You, Ethnic Slurs: "Corrosive, Cute, or Cloying Awfulness."
According to Micheal Magee, “Poems are, like, total bullshit unless they are/squid or popsicles or deer piled/on elk in the trunk of David Hasselhoff’s/cutlass Sierra.” That’s pretty much the spirit of the first poetry movement of the 21st century: semi-dadist riffing with Googleian specifics. It’s an interesting metaphor for modern consciousness– globalization has brought the [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2009 under agency, art, feminist, globalization, identity, identity politics, insult, poetry, politically correct, politics, pop culture, popular culture, postmodern, repression, slur.
Tags: agency, apathy, art, avant garde, Baudelaire, consciousness, contemporary, cracker, cutlass sierra, dadism, david hasselhoff, deer, elk, ethnic, Ezra Pound, flarf, globalization, google, googleian, identity politics, information age, john ashbery, kike, making it new, micheal magee, movement, offense, podcast, poems, poetry, poetry foundation, poetry off the shelf, popsicles, postmodern, reclamation, repression, slur, squid, trunk, walt whitman, whatever
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From Vagina Rock to Cootchie-Coo: Ani Difranco, Hip Mama, Has Baby.
Ok, I know she’s a controversial figure. I mean, she sings about pussy stridently. We might not be able to handle that around here. But these days, Ani Di’s also been preparing to
Posted: January 4th, 2008 under 50 ft Woman, Ani Difranco, Female Sexuality, acceptance, alternative, alternative & punk, anger, ani, artist, attack of the 50ft woman, baby, barack, birthday, canon, cd, dammit!, daughter, experimental jazz, exploitation, itunes, love, lyric, lyricism\, mike napolitano, mother, motherhood, music, musician, obama, petah lucia, poetry, pop music, popular music, power, punk, real love, record company, record industry, righteous babe, september 11, slideshow, tour, vanilla weiss, vote.
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Objectify These Links!
Ok, so it’s a crazy time of year. I have four papers this weekend, and a thesis, and I’m applying for fellowships for next year. But I want to keep you posted about the amazing/horrific things out there. So, here’re some interesting links I’ve come across in my few minutes of procrastination: – Runways Fade [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2007 under Cameron Diaz, Jena, Wikipedia, anonymous, egg rolls, fashion, guerilla, handbag, i love you, jena 6, john mellencamp, lifetime, links, love, maoist, mayor, music, noose, objectification, poetry, procrastination, project, racism, rebel, revolution, song, warfare.
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my life be like ooh ah…….. and gettin' meta
So let’s get meta. That’s the parlance of the blogging world, which I joined by accident because I signed up for a class about pop culture last semester. Metablogging is blogging about blogging, as this blog is. It’s called ‘meta’ for short, both by the software that supports the blog itself, and by bloggers in [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2007 under Indian, adolescent, anger, angry, asterisks, babe, cat, chocha, differences, emo, emoticons, gender, girl, grammar, hot, hunk, meta, poetry.
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