Year 2: Month 4: Volume 1
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…very soon I will release my first attempt at a Beaucoup podcast type thing, mixtape type thing, strange audio collage type thing, for all subscribers!! So stay on the lookout for an audio soundscape of weirdness coming soon!
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Noir Kei Ninomiya Fall/Winter 2023/24 Paris
This essay compares two influential conceptions of contemporary labor, which emerge from and contribute to radically divergent interpretive traditions, but share common ground. First is the largely celebratory idea of a “creative class” branded by Richard Florida, management professor and globe-trotting consultant to government and industry. Second is the account of “immaterial labor” assembled by a group of thinkers tied to autonomia, a radical Marxist formation with origins in the Italian workerist movement.
— from “Creative Labor” by Sarah Brouillette, via Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group
Kim Dorland is a contemporary Canadian painter based in Toronto.
Maroon Choreography: A poetry reading by fahima ife
fahima ife reads from their book "Maroon Choreography" (Duke University Press, August 2021). In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, ife speculates on the afterlives of Black fugitivity, unsettling the historic knowledge of it while moving inside the ongoing afterlives of those people who disappeared themselves into rural spaces beyond the reach of slavery.