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cultural critic writing notes about literary fiction, noir comic books, African-Am history, martial arts, cities, alt R&B, radical politics and whatever else i feel passionate about that day bi-monthly notes in addition to other types of fun content!
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Luke’s Monthly Music #2 (opens the original)
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I lost my laptop on the train so a bunch of the pieces for this Substack are gone. In light of that happening, I decided to write a bit about some music to encourage myself to start writing again. I want to figure out a way to contextualize some of these songs in their social relations and how they were produced. If anyone has leads on this especially in regards to the guitar music I mention, let me know. I may just need to do more research. I feel like the only music I can adequately write abou
Through the American Wasteland (opens the original)
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The country is in a perpetual cycle of rebirth and death. San Francisco is a wicked city. I love how they carry their guns in Texas. America is a multi-racial society and short of a mass ethnic cleansing, it will remain that way. The country is also unified in it’s hatred of Black people, which makes sense since Black inferiority is a part of the founding myth. But the hatred is often confused and acted out as love. The South is no worse than any other part of the country in that regard. What do
Watching the Smoke (opens the original)
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Note: This was supposed to be an essay but it’s too unclear like the smoke. African-American art exists in an uncertain period. The post-racial Civil rights era is gone and now we are bombarded by AI images of Malcolm X shaking hands with Charlie Kirk in Heaven. Some “Black” narratives are fixated on the past while others with the future. Both of these perspectives are troubling. The Black historical drama and it’s derivatives relies too much upon nostalgia or historical determinism while Afro-f
John “Boogie” Brown (opens the original)
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This story was inspired by a lot of things. I’ve been writing a lot about the multi-racial and multi-cultural character of American society around the 250th anniversary. This is another story in that vein. The main points are an old video of some guys in Rockford doing a breakdance battle, white rappers, loving your siblings even though they dumb as fuck sometimes, annoying activists realizing real life isn’t the internet, and growing up in a post industrial place. It also has to do with social
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