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Let’s look backwards. La Petite Mort — Disco Emo is currently undergoing a mass polarization. There’s several active, abrasive skramz scenes and, unfortunately, many more goober fratmo clubs. Is it so wrong to want a band that can find harmony in erratic hardcore and pugnacity in flamboyant art rock…

Heretofore to the Floor Nominally, I’m an indie rock guy. I look the part. I play in the local bands. It’s the most accessible, albeit still tiny, non-wedding music scene in my hometown of Des Moines. I’m also big into electronic music and edm, but in Iowa, that interest becomes…

A few days ago, Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic wrote a nice little piece on a pressing internal DSA conflict. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/democratic-socialists-bernie-sanders-strategy/598015/ To elaborate more lucidly here, Godfrey wrote a piece detailing the projects of various Iowa DSA chapters and also included some less-than-guileful commentary from Berniecrats that vaguely share our…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/lifestyle/vacation-ideas/things-to-do-in-des-moines/?noredirect=on I’m sorry Melanie D. G. Kaplan, but your list is wrong. Disgustingly wrong. It’s not your fault though. I’m sure you consulted with someone who is not fun and also probably a landlord. So, I just did a cursory google search and I found out that the average individual…

In Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, the philosopher describes the world of the forthcoming 21st century as a realm where consumerism itself becomes reality: “These billboards, in fact, observe and surveil you as well, or as badly, as the ‘policing’ television. …

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J.J. Abrams made another movie. And yes, it’s blockbuster pageantry. He truly is the undisputed champion of supposedly watchable action cinema, Michael Bay’s antithesis I guess. Overlord, his newest production, falls in line with the Bad Robot portfolio, spectacle with just enough substance to warrant any scrutiny. Overlord is a…

Since Trump finagled his way into the White House, the threat of “authoritarianism” has become an unremitting anxiety of the skittish pundit class. On MSNBC newscasts, in Washington Post editorials, norms fetishists declare, “Oh no! …