Wertheimer
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Imagine if this is what gets rid of her.
Democrats, where is your god now? 
A bit of a letdown after last week's all-timer, but it's nice to see some Vegan Sicko representation.
This book looks cool.
Book by Daniel Spicer; review by Stevphen Shukaitis
Spicer’s central wager – that Brötzmann’s music must be understood through the prism of revolutionary politics – opens onto a set of questions that resonate strongly with longer trajectories of Marxist thought on jazz and improvisation. If earlier critics such as Theodor Adorno notoriously dismissed jazz as pseudo-individualised standardisation, subsequent traditions – from Amiri Baraka’s insistence on the music’s embeddedness in Black radical struggle to Ben Watson’s Marxist-inflected writings on improvisation – have sought to recover its social and political density. Spicer’s account implicitly aligns with this latter tendency, but pushes it in a distinct direction: away from representation (what the music means) and toward organisation (what the music does).
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. . . Spicer does more than reconstruct a past moment of avant-garde innovation; he reveals a set of practices that continue to resonate in the present. Brötzmann’s legacy emerges not only as a body of work, but as an ongoing experiment in collective organisation, one that gestures toward possible futures –toward the unfinished project of building forms of social and artistic life capable, however provisionally, of resisting the logics of commodification and control. For those navigating today’s precarious cultural landscape, this is not merely of historical interest. It is a resource: a reminder that other ways of organising are possible, that the means of production remain contestable, and that even within the constraints of the present, spaces of cooperation, solidarity, and shared experimentation can still be made.
Musicians have hitherto only 
the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
Inspired by @HarryLime@hexbear.net 's "got your nose" posts.
In 695 the population rose under the leadership of Leontius, the strategos of Hellas, and proclaimed him Emperor. Justinian was deposed and his nose was cut off (later to be replaced by a solid gold replica of his original) to prevent his again seeking the throne: such mutilation was common in Byzantine culture. He was exiled to Cherson in the Crimea. Leontius, after a reign of three years, was in turn dethroned and imprisoned by Tiberius III, who then assumed the throne.
