Pol Rosenthal

Category: Thought

  • Africans, Asians Unite!

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    Asia in My Life By Ngugi wa Thiong’o “The links between Asia and Africa and South America have always been present but in our times they have been made invisible by the fact that Europe is still the central mediator of Afro-Asian-Latino discourse. We live under what Satya Mohanty in his interview in Frontline (April…

  • Hou Hanru: Super Reality – NOWNESS

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    Anyone who claims they’re  an artist, but isn’t interested in China is lying, delusional, or not an artist. http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/5/15/2063/hou-hanru-super-reality Hou Hanru knows more than you about the scene and gives us a few things to investigate.

  • “What Comes After The Hipster”

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    “Zeynep Arsel, Assistant Professor of Marketing at John Molson School of Business, Concordia University: I think seeing hipster as a narrative, rather than a distinct group of people, is a great way to understand how urban middle class identities are constructed and how postmodern class distinctions are established. The mythology of hipster is an extremely…

  • This Blackness It Burns

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    Whoa, Angolan production team Nirvanas & Beats fire up the heavy kuduro. I’d never heard of these cats until tonight, but I’ve listened to Buraka Som Sistema for a long time. Buraka is a Portuguese kuduro act that can break the night. What I don’t know about kuduro could fill many books. Doesn’t matter, though.…

  • A Night Out

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    A couple of my friends from Gloria’s Cause, the epic Revolutionary War piece I was in last year. We’re drinking bourbon which is as American as it gets for booze save for rum. As a black male, I’ve always thought I deserve a free, lifetime supply of rum. I pay for bourbon when I can.