While I don't completely agree with her critique of the Birmingham School, I still really enjoyed this book and really liked her tracing of club music history. Her framing of the record object as a site of culture is very cool.
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Jaytee reviewed Club cultures by Sarah Thornton (Music/culture)
Review of 'Club cultures' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
While I don't completely agree with her critique of the Birmingham School, I still really enjoyed this book and really liked her tracing of club music history. Her framing of the record object as a site of culture is very cool.
Jaytee rated A Country of Ghosts: 5 stars
A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy (Black Dawn, #2)
Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships …
Jaytee rated Polysecure: 5 stars
Polysecure by Jessica Fern
Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if, …
Jaytee rated Twitter and tear gas: 5 stars
Twitter and tear gas by Zeynep Tufekci
A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements' greatest strengths and frequent challenges. To understand …
Jaytee rated The Day the Country Died: 5 stars
Jaytee rated Unauthorized Bread: 5 stars
Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow
New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread -- a novella about immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological …
Jaytee rated Digital Closet: 3 stars
Jaytee rated Gender Trouble: 5 stars
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (Routledge Classics)
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as …
Jaytee rated The practice of everyday life: 4 stars
Jaytee rated The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: 4 stars
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere by Jürgen Habermas
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (German: Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. Untersuchungen …
Jaytee reviewed Lipstick traces by Greil Marcus
Review of 'Lipstick traces' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
It's nonlinear so it felt pretty hard to read. I wouldn't have appreciated it as much if I didn't have someone help me through understanding it.
It's nonlinear so it felt pretty hard to read. I wouldn't have appreciated it as much if I didn't have someone help me through understanding it.
Jaytee rated After Kathy Acker: 3 stars
After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus
"Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon...scholar, stripper, victim, and media-whore: the late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are …