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Music: Graspop Metal Meeting 2018 (Friday)
Feature — July 2, 2018
The task of summing up a well-organized European festival is large enough, especially since I dislike festivals to begin with. So I’ll leave you with one day, and one interpretation, namely, my own. Whether you like music festivals or not shouldn’t send you running from fear of crowds, and social …
Regular Columns / Against Orthodoxy: The Anxiety of Influence
Feature — July 16, 2018
In February 1996 late novelist David Foster Wallace released a modern masterpiece, Infinite Jest, uncovering a wellspring of contemporary criticism and psychological diagnosis. Granted his prose is maddeningly bratty to some readers and unapologetically obsessive, most of it is just damn good by my standards. Say what you will, …
Regular Columns / Against Orthodoxy: Subverting Authority
Feature — December 22, 2018
With startling revelations our systems of authority are thought to be illegitimate, God dies, and the state cannot be justified. The burden of life is too great as our knowledge of suffering increases, to the point where our beliefs crumble and our gods buckle. Beings as a whole take precedent …
