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“lofi hip hop radio—beats to relax/study to,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
disregard for “premodern” peoples and their inventions is precisely why we face a planetary crisis,
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
One thinks of Amit Majmudar, Christian Wiman, Tracy K. Smith, Ryan Wilson, and many others. These poets are only rarely published in prestigious publications (or, at least, publications with a prestigious legacy), and the group that should be the biggest supporter of these poets—conservatives—has tended to ignore poetry and the arts. When conserv... See more
Micah Mattix • The Integrity of Poetry | Micah Mattix
1993: A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders / Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Classic hip-hop is a sentence. And if the beginning of the sentence is me purchasing Eric B. and Rakim’s Paid in Full at Crazy Eddie’s in 1987, then these two records are the end of the sentence. A year before them, Dr. Dre’s The Chronic had changed every
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follower inflation.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,