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Dilla Time (2022)

Dilla Time by Dan Charnas Short excerpt from the brilliantly researched book by the premier J Dilla (James Yancey) scholar. Making beats is always a conversation between producers, and between the present and the past. James’s tracks in the 1990s … Continue reading

Witches and the Origins of Capitalism (1 hour 51 minutes, 2023)

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Witches and the Origins of Capitalism (1 hour 51 minutes, 2023)

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Capitalism and the Witchhunt Part One 1200-1450 The future is composed merely of images of the past. Every country has this in common: some citizens are recognized as human, while others are not. The economy of the Roman Empire, for … Continue reading

Witches and the Origins of Capitalism (1 hour 51 minutes, 2023)

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Based on Silvia Federici’s groundbreaking book Caliban and the Witch, this essay collage describes the economic shift from a peasant economy into capitalism. The most severe global pandemic in history led to a golden age of peasantry, filled with new … Continue reading

Ask the Animals (60 minutes, 2023)

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Ask the Animals (60 minutes, 2023)

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A wordless essay, presented in a suite of master shots, offering glimpses of animal societies in motion. Moments of the everyday include cycles of eating, loving, fighting and playing. These liminal and fast disappearing collectives are a living hauntology, a … Continue reading

Uber (23 minutes, 2023)

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Uber (23 minutes, 2023)

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When I was six years old, my father fell in love with a word. He and my mother had stopped having sex, and this word became a kind of substitute. The more he wanted the sex he couldn’t have any … Continue reading

Uber (23 minutes, 2023)

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The ride-sharing app Uber swept through my city like a tidal wave, overturning decades of immigrant taxi drivers working impossible hours to provide for their families. I met scientists, researchers, engineers, even a doctor who was waiting for his papers. … Continue reading

Letter to Fred (10:06 minutes, 2023)

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