While afterschool activities, youth mentorshipprograms and the like are worthwhile endeavors in their own right, and are sorely needed in many under-resourcedneighborhoods, the counterterrorism umbrella is not the right framework for implementing them.
YES. also because now you're getting childcare who treat the kids as threats rather than goddamn children
help spot identity issues and disaffection
sorry, hun, seems you misspelled "create" as "spot" happens to the best of us
Of course, if history is any guide,programs developed for Muslims will be used against other groups as well. Law enforcement reports haveidentified groups opposed to gun control, immigration, abortion, taxes, and even third party candidates as “farright extremists,” who might become violent. Environmental activists, Occupy protesters and the Black LivesMatter movement have all become targets for intelligence-gathering as well.
that's great and all, but even if this was only affecting Muslim Americans and never expanded past that group, that would still be a problem
The latter language is sometimes misspelled owing tohomophony in Mexican Spanish
gotta love "standard spanish" here
youngsters is the alternate use of languages in their repertoire. It is common to freelytranslate the stanzas that make up a song, a fact that is explained by the need to keep therhythm and rhyme both in Maya and Spanish.
similar to what i've heard in some Japanese music
artistic production, but more often than notancillary in institutional language policy and planning.
when someone chooses to learn a language like Maya, they are probably doing it for emotional and personal reasons, so it makes sense to get that involved more
through pride and self-esteem, which are fundamental components for languagerevitalisation, underpins these statements
pride and self-esteem are also major parts of hip hop persona, so it makes sense that this is so effective
llecting artwork, flyers and photographs accompanying theadvertising of musical events,
oh i didn't even think about that but it makes total sense
second feature is the fact that rap is a kind of music genre associated by many youngpeople with modernity and ‘coolness’.
i mean, not to be a weeb, but a good way to get even non-community members interested in learning a language is to make something they like in that language. Why else would so many ppl with no connection to Japan learn Japanese?
inguistic purism,
what the "standard english" thing was about
In contrast toinstitutional policies that stress the development of literacy and standardisation (Pinali2009), two sociolinguistic features make rap an especially relevant genre for languagerevitalisation
interesting spoken vs written intersection--people listen to music WAY more than anyone looks at it
Djing
HATE that it lower-cased the J
ase studies include such distantand culturally distinct contexts as Australia, Italy, Japan, Tanzania, Brazil, South Koreaand Germany to name but a few.
it is crazy to see just how world-wide hip hop in particular has become
earedexclusively to indigenous peoples
EXACTLY--it's like expecting only deaf ppl to learn ASL and then not hiring them because you don't use the same language
bilingual programme
it's always bilingual, never prioritizing the language of the minority above the language of the majority. is it for practical reasons? yes. but it's still sucky
creation of a federal agency inMexico City that promotes indigenous languages (Inali, National Institute of IndigenousLanguages) have been other important institutional developments
how available are these opportunities tho? because making it available is great, but if you still can't get a job as a indig. language speaker then that's a bigger problem
City Souls
graffiti connects people as much as any other city-specific thing does
To overlook global subculturalcommonality is to turn one’s back on global flows of meaning
i am curious about what it means that the "global" art style is based on a specific art style originating in the US. Like, I'm not saying graffiti doesn't deserve to be everywhere or graffiti artists are colonizers, but it is interesting that so much of "global" culture, from the highest class to the lowest class, is western--and specifically American
To present only the buffed paysage rather than the living visageof the city
reminds me of DC. The people who work in DC don't live there. But because they're of higher status, the district is seen as belonging to them when it should belong to the actual residents of DC
This dissolution of the division between the sacred (stained glass) andthe profane (graffiti) invites us to reflect on what texts are sanctioned, whaturban literacies allowed, what voices heard, which windows broken, which soulssaved (and which buffed).
but it also relies on the "deserving" and "undeserving" distinction of graffiti. Some graffiti artists are making art that, if it were not graffiti, would be acceptable to the wider public. But not every graffiti artist is. So is only "good" graffiti allowed?
‘The stained glass windows that we have – some of themare very historic over a hundred years old – and that medium of stained glassspoke very clearly to the people of the past, and this’ he continues, gesturing tothe wall of graffiti behind him (see Figure 6.6), ‘speaks to people of the presentand the future’.
I do love that this shows how humans are the same--we create wall art then, we create wall art now.
‘dozens of photos of illegal graffiti – some with vandals picturedin the act’ (
the fact that the cops tried to stop people from showing who had done the graffiti is so funny bc the artists aren't even trying to hide who they are and the cops don't seem to be doing anything about tracking ppl down based on these photos. It's like tweeting that you just robbed a bank when your profile has your full name
Melbourne Graffiti Games” and offering gold, silver and bronzemedals. Categories include most daring placement, best caricature of the mayoror councillor, most seditious piece and largest graffiti piece’
oh my GOD that is amazing. It's a way for people to get involved, it's a way of mocking the people who are trying to maintain power, and it's a way of egging one another on to do more and more drastic art
‘We received a lot of support, especially from international visitors, with lotsof people taking photographs and talking to us’
literally the city so desperately wants to hide the same thing that visitors enjoy about the city. It's like throwing a sheet over the Eifel tower
While graffiti may be oppositional, ‘it is not form-less or disorganized. Like other guerrilla formations, it has its own internalstructure and highly efficient strategies for mobilizing meanin
humans are natural organizers. Even things that appear disorganized rarely ever are
The location of graffiti around transport (bridges, trains, railways), further-more, suggests not only the availability of writable walls and the cult of daringthat makes a virtue of tagging inaccessible public space, but also the importanceof movement and visibility
why so many NYC artists wanted to paint trains was because their art would not only be in one space but all over their city
contribute to the definition of its exterior aspect, its size, as well as tothe definition of its interior design, its soul’
and they become beloved landmarks to the people who live there. "Surrender Dorothy" is one of my favorite things about my home county. The fact that you can't go anywhere in DC without seeing a "fuck trump" on a wall is amazing
graffiti is not, as a bourgeois reading would have it, only about bespoilingthe public space
there are very few civilizations in history who have wanted to live in a "bespoiled" environment. It's more that what counts as "beautiful" and "ugly" is subjective and everyone wants to make their space beautiful but nobody agrees on what that looks like
way that parkour – the art of fluid, physical movement through urban landscapesdeveloped in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities – reclaims the drabconcrete environments designed for working class and predominantly immi-grant communities by reinterpreting the cityscape through physical movement,
that's actually an amazing way of looking at parkour that I had never heard
Not intended to be interpretable by peopleoutside the subculture of hip-hop/graff writers,
that's why non-members hate it: it's not for them when they expect everything to be for them
cryptic (Back soon – Godot)
that's not cryptic that's witty and hilarious
clean-up
even the fact that someone mourning the art calls the removal of it a "clean-up" is because of the way graffiti is framed in our society
painting over it on rail corridors make a boring view for commutersand Games visitors’
exactly!! I want to know what the people of a town are making, I don't just want to see concrete and metal
makers or writers of graffiti, their work is about style, space,identity, and reimagining the city.
totally in line with the docu
And for thosewho do not know how to read the signs of the graffiti world, as Milon (2002)suggests, tags are often seen as ‘incomprehensible hieroglyphic signaturesthat aggressively pollute the visual space of the inhabitant, a type of filth thatdamages the City’s attractiveness. These marks are felt as dirty, exterior markson the City’ (p. 87).
THISSSSSS
Graffiti is dismissed as writing and as art and is assumed to come from people who do not belong in the place where it is when it's usually THEIR neighborhood, or at least their home city
graffiti produce negative imagesof the city rather than being detrimental themselves,
reminds me of how in the NYC subway documentary, the graffiti didn't cause damage to the trains but the stuff they used to remove the paint did cause damage, but the blame for all the damage was put on the artists
raffiti isnot only ugly and unsightly
It's just ASSUMED that all graffiti is ugly when??? that's not how art works, you can't just say an entire medium is ugly
all city residents, workers and visitor
who is considered a part of the city
welcomin
safe and welcoming except to graffiti artists
vibrant
vibrant but no art tho
to be seen to be easy on graffiti may be seenas being light on crime.
even tho the crimes people actually care most about have basically nothing to do with graffiti
graffiti writing as a counterliteracy that challenges, mimics, and carnivalizes therelations between text, private ownership, and the control of public space
It's a way of saying "this belongs to us"
A common argument among graffiti artists is that the legally sanctionedbillboards and advertisements that adorn urban environments are a greatereyesore than graffiti, and it is only the fact that capitalist-influenced laws makeone legal and the other not that turns their art into an underground activity.
this is a point I had not thought of. I do think the "I want everything to be gray" argument is insane, but yeah, advertisements definitely bug me more than graffiti ever has
graffiti crews ‘resemblemedieval guilds or trade unions, with apprentices assisting on works designedby masters, often painting backgrounds and filling in outlines in preparationfor the finer detailed work’
totally what we saw in the documentary about graffiti in Words+pics class. Apprenticeship was absolutely essential
anti-social tendencie
even tho graffiti artists form a social community
hile incarcerated, both Masha and Nadya enacted punkperformances that, ironically, required a full knowledge and investment in the law in order to demandlegality from the prison system
I think there is a difference between what is illegal because it's against the law and what is illegal because it is against the government. Sometimes the best way to do something the government doesn't want you to do is by following their rules better than they can. it's a question of tactics
This is not a vision of anarchy; rather, it is a vision of a functioning legal system and governmentinstitutions that protect human rights. Both Nadya and Masha came out of prison with a dedicated focus onprison reform—punk human rights—founding the advocacy group Zona Prava
the law is a set of rules, yes, but the law is also a people and a power that do not always follow the rules they set. And fighting against those in power sometimes necessitates knowing the written law better than they do
This is howpunk becomes a way of life that is not punk—or rather, a way of life that should not have to be punk, but justgood citizenship.
but punks need to be ready to break the law when the law is unjust. It's about doing what MLK said and determining which laws are just and which unjust and choosing to break and destroy the unjust ones. "good citizenship" does not allow rule breaking, while punk should.
n the face of lawless autocracy, punk may take the form of a methodical and rigorousresponse that thoroughly invests in the rule of law and restores faith in the democratic system.
it's about using and protecting the best of the systems that exist and tearing down the shit that does harm.
A whole year passed before I couldjustify my ‘no’ by citing Russian law and forcing a gasp from each person at a search who told me to take o my underwear or to squat nake
the gasp at somebody choosing to defend themselves and using their intelligence to do so--things prisoners, punks, and women, are not supposed to do
W]e might consider that one of punk’s overarching discursive intentions—what one means to do byengaging in a punk means of underproduction—is to disregard: to negate regard; to refuse to respect, torepudiate rather hold in esteem. Punk starts with refusal and then you nd a way from there
I think it's more about doing it no matter what and saying who the fuck cares if it's not good. Not necessarily seeking to make something not good.
t was a prime example of a classic Russian genre: a bitter darkcomedy depicting the absurdity of oppression
I like that it's not just inspired by punk, it's inspired by russian stories and music as well
“If the performance caused you suchmoral su ering, why did you decide to poison your soul again?”
good job defense lawyer
Rachmanino ’s melody is a counterfeit Orthodox chant; and this video is also something of a counterfeit, inits expansion of a eeting forty seconds into nearly two minutes. U
interesting use of the word "counterfeit" I also would argue that the video is not counterfeit just cuz they milked it. They didn't stage the footage they got (in that they DID get detained) and they didn't imply that something happened that didn't. They used footage all from one event, and just repeated parts of it to make it longer. But that's what music videos often do
They all agreed it was the worst video they had ever published.” But these detailsof underproduction are exactly what makes the video so compelling.
the fact that they got interrupted by guards makes the message as well as if they had gotten a whole video
casting Pussy Riot in the role of (capitalist)overproduction—the sleek technological repackaging of a makeshift musical concert.
I dunno if I agree. Just because the band had a specific version of a video they were creating does not mean they were over-produced or that they are the capitalists. what about them recording their own show is actually capitalistic?
for an imagined album
I wonder if they were actually going to make an album
ctional punk rock group
I still find the insistence that they're "fictional" or "fake" so weird. Like, I get that they're a weird punk band, but they they look like a duck and walk like a duck
. The underproduction of the music trackcreates a grand sonic metaphor for living under an oppressive authoritarian and patriarchal regime.
I like that he includes this "grand metaphor" statement AND the quote where one of them admits the way they made this music was at the last minute
So as usual we doeverything at the last moment and about twelve hours before the talk we start researching anddiscover that there is no such thing in Russia.
sounds pretty punk to me
punk proposes a means of underproduction, a concerted attempt to intervene crudely butcreatively in the problem of capitalist over-production
I would argue that "underproduction" is not the point, but an outcome of the DIY-ness. Whether the underproduced-ness became an image people wanted to achieve later on, I'm not sure. But they didn't set out to make crude shit, they just made what they wanted to with what they had
who were not, in fact, musicians in any traditional sense
i don't understand how you can define certain people who play music as musicians and others as not musicians. They make music, right?? and people listen to it? and they go out and perform it? that's a fucking musician. Also: punks don't usually rely on "traditional sense" stuff
pantomime musicperformances— lmed and edited with a dubbed soundtrack into roughly produced music videos uploadedto YouTube and the Russian blog site LiveJournal
did they record their own music? I thought they did? just cuz you're lip-syncing in the moment doesn't mean you aren't a musician
No, Masha Alyokhina was not going to pretend to be a punk rocker for my 2016 interview
but she IS punk rock. and she played punk music.
Yet again, punk is reduced to meaninglessinsolence and a nihilistic undoing of history,
yeah that's not punk. punk is being thoughtful when choosing who to tell to fuck off
self-authorizing action and expression, free fromany deference to norms, institutions, experience, or skill
that's part of it
Who he is is a guy with a safetypin through his nose and a purple mohawk. He just pulled o the most punk act in Americanhistory
no. because what he does is manipulate the system, not work to uproot it
But punk for me, it is a way to express yourself, because you can shout as loud asyou can, you can be totally abnormal because I kind of hate norms
yes. that's why zine makers and political activists in the scene are just as punk as anyone playing an instrument
from the generic punk music stance of jamming the system with loud noise andmischievous fakery, to an understanding of punk as an activism that works through the court systemand champions transparency
sweetie punk was always political
The illegal punk performance actions
were most of their actions illegal when they were performed?
impersonateda punk rock band
as if they're not actually a punk band??
Henry David Thoreau
who did not so much enjoy nature as abhor other people