Co-written with Steph TJ

Our comprehension of the modern world is blurred by the erasure of the past. While researching the populist takeover of a coastal city facing the Adriatic during the volatile post-war period in Europe, we came across 20th century ideologies that explain a lot about the reactionary U-turn that not only our political parties have taken but also cultural institutions at large. …

Co-written with Mathys Rennela

As Black intellectuals rarely live in a vacuum, it’s no surprise that there is a thread connecting Black art and Black critical theory throughout the years. The aim of this article is to clarify some of those intellectual connections in the context of dance music, and perceived influences of Afro-Pessimism (and affiliated theories) in dance music discourse. More specifically, we intend here to describe dance music as an umbrella of musical innovations which spread across the African diaspora.

What is Afro-pessimism the name of?

(Credits : Pictures from The Matrix directed by the Wachowskis 1999)

This is a follow up from my first essay “What is the future for music after COVID-19?” I was lucky to be able to exchange with DeForrest Brown, Jr. a New York-based theorist, journalist, and curator, with who I’m now doing a series of conversations with, about the music industry and the state of affairs that you can follow on my patreon. I will also be joined by Rich Jensen, ex Subpop and the Co-op Executive for Resonate Co-op,an international fair-trade music streaming cooperative.

I also wanted to get…

In this essay, I will try to highlight the contour of an alternative to the financialization of music. in a COVID world patience is running out, we have witnessed organizations and individuals who called themselves progressive dodging accountability when asked to take responsibility for their oppressive behavior. Meanwhile, some corporations are thriving and millionaires getting richer at such a scale that in 2020 we have the “honor” to have the first trillionaire.

As put by Zarinah Agnew in Xenofeminism: the tldr on technomaterialism
Technologies should be re-engineered for the actual benefit to society, not to propagate existing oppressions. It calls on…