This moment represents a new low for music journalism as a whole. But it’s in times like these that prefigurative visions come more clearly into focus. - Boston Review

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Since October 7, “the actions of Israel and the United States have brought us ever closer to the brink of a major war in West Asia.” Helena Cobban

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Seamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939. Here he is writing on the power of poetic influence:

“Poetry that was originally beyond you, generating the need to understand and overcome its strangeness, becomes in the end a familiar path within you.”

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'It is an unfortunate truth that the sort of theory that flourished in the last decades of the twentieth century eventually descended into scholasticism, where real questions of suffering and social transformation were obscured.'

The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture

India and Israel are dusting off time-worn strategy from colonial archive: importing & exporting racially marked temporary labor to manage political and economic problems in one fell swoop.
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A very important piece on the labour Politics of the Netanyahu-Modi fash bromance.

An exquisite review by Peter Gordon indeed. Eager to see the movie and read the book.

'Only 'Hindu workers' should apply' because the 'Israeli government fears the potential for pro-Palestine solidarity among Muslim Indian workers.' A remarkable Boston Review essay on Indian migrants replacing Palestinians in Israel, a modern-day indenture bostonreview.net/articles/labor…

With their new worker deal, India and Israel are dusting off a time-worn strategy from the colonial archive: importing and exporting temporary labor to manage political and economic problems in one fell swoop.

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Enjoyed this. Encountered the last breath or two of ‘theory’ as a graduate student before, like a puff of smoke, it vanished and shelf-loads of derivative books and articles, some still warm from the press, were never opened again, let alone read.

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Read the poem here:

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“Adorno offered a kind of breviary for young readers and a model for what theory might be: essayistic, systemless, and ambulatory. Theory was a critical practice, or even a lifestyle.”

Peter E. Gordon on how theory came to Germany:

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What's an example of an excellent book review? I really admire this one by Rachel Fraser of Sophie Grace Chappell's Epiphanies in the Boston Review bostonreview.net/articles/you-o…

Exquisite bostonreview.net/articles/the-s…

“Theory” once conveyed a special magic. But now that the passion for it has been largely spent, it can be hard to explain why it was once felt to be so fascinating, writes Peter E. Gordon:

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The Works Progress Administration, a signature achievement of FDR’s New Deal, was approved by Congress on this day in 1935.

Read Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves on why we need “a new form of an old idea—a WPA for an age of pandemics.”

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With Eli Zeger in Boston Review on the future of music criticism, Sam Adler-Bell in The Baffler on Adam Phillips, Jennifer Grotz in The Yale Review on metaphor, Alice Notley in The Brooklyn Rail on the experience of writing a poem… (1/2)

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