Monthly Archives: January 2017

Illicit Art in Syria

The conflict in Syria has been called a civil war, proxy war, a regional conflagration, even a foreign conspiracy. These representations reflect a militaristic conceptualization of conflict that renders the Syrian people invisible and silences their intimate day-to-day lives. Yet if we start thought from the life of an object – from the statues of […]

The Rebels of Rap

This essay follows Black culture in the United States through the lens of gangsta rap. This musical art functions as a window into the hidden consciousness of post-industrial, working class, African American society. To listen to the legendary lyrics of individuals like Ice-T and Tupac Shakur is to tap in to an expansive network of […]