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this one is along the lines of what i've been searching for style-wise. will need to spend some time with it to see if it's actually good. it's hard to line up all the following: the music is good, the words are good, and the delivery is good. she uses a very clean and tidy mic, and is closely...

dubstep

dunno. i don't know if anyone or anything is to blame for something like that. not sure if its unsustainable either. i mean. it is going to be sustained. is it a good thing? quite hard to judge

yes but that's what i mean. the basic narrative that things are getting better (in africa) doesn't take this into account. it becomes a more complex thing if you think about absolute numbers.

the picture on poverty is a bit more complicated than that if you're thinking about it globally, which i guess you are. in africa taken as a whole for example the rate of poverty has reduced but the number of people living in poverty has increased in that timeframe, as per the best measurements...

deaths of despair

corpsey how did you end up getting to write about rap? is it the kind of thing you can say on here . and did you like it?

depends on what you're trying to do i think. i'm mostly interested in description myself and there's truth in all of these ideas that get pumped out. all these things are happening simultaneously. there's not a way to get over the fundamental limitation that all these ideas are finally one...

yeah, maybe. it's certainly a possibility

yes agree but at some point you have to do it yourself and try to integrate it all with your own experience of the world. in the end no-one and no framework can describe the whole world and everything in it. faults gaps and collapsing models are as good at its going to get

its a basic aspect of being a human being i think. grappling with these inbuilt limitations on your ability to understand the world. in the end that is what these philosophers and youtubers are doing; providing a way to understand what's going on. at the level of frameworks, concepts and minute...

the saturation of the phones is incredible now

here's my man from the cinema the other week

been out in bushwick et al a bit recently. all the cool kids are very put togther. very clean. they look like people on Netflix shows. something about the colours and the newness of the garments

saw the zia anger film last night, called my first film. US independent filmmaking is throwing up some quite good bits and pieces at the moment. or at least i'm attuned to it. this one was autofiction basically. it's strange getting old enough that nostalgic films now have nostalgia i can relate...

i know i've said this kind of shit a million times but the impulse has been displaced from the exciting accessible and cheap medium of the past (music) to the exciting accessible and cheap medium of the present (the internet). people are even more than ever defining themselves as being against...

theres way more working class salt of the earth DNA in american literature (at least early 20th c) than there is in the british canon