November 2010
61 posts
October 2010
33 posts
Helicopter (Diplo & Lunice mix)
Deerhunter
Deerhunter - Helicopter (Diplo & Lunice remix)
“Oh these drugs they play on me these terrible ways. They don’t pay like they used to pay. I used to make it day to day.”
Spring is coming and we will be alright
“Within current debates about race and difference, mass culture is the contemporary location that both publicly declares and perpetuates the idea that there is pleasure to be found in the acknowledgment and enjoyment of racial difference. The commodification of Otherness has been so successful because it is offered as a new delight, more intense, more satisfying than normal ways of doing and feeling. Within commodity culture, ethnicity because spice, seasoning that can liven up the dull dish that is mainstream white culture. Cultural taboos around sexuality and desire are transgressed and made explicit as the media bombards folks with a message of difference no longer based on the white supremacist assumption that “blondes have more fun.” The “real fun” is to be had by bringing to the surface all those “nasty” unconscious fantasies and longings about contact with the Other embedded in the secret (not so secret) deep structure of white supremacy. In many ways this is a contemporary revival of interest in the “primitive”, with a distinctly post modern slant.”
—bell hooks
Black Looks, Race and Representation
Black Looks, Race and Representation
Whitfield Lovell
Kin III (Canto), 2008
Kin IV (One Last Thrill) , 2008
Kin V (Thou Dark One), 2008
Kin VIII (1619), 2008
Kin XVIII (Hope Springs Eternal), 2008
Kin XIX, 2008
(My) Precarious Life , 2008
Images via DC Moore Gallery.
