Mark Hayward

This is one of my favourite Beach Boys songs. Written by Brian Wilson, who passed away today, but sung by the band's manager at the time, Jack Rieley. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBAh...

Sly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82 American songwriter lit up generations of dancefloors with his group Sly and the Family Stone

RIP, Sly.
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Our seminar with Brian Massumi about his new book The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life is now online and in the podcast feed. culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/04/02/t...
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Cover of On the Way to Theory by Lawrence Grossberg. Cover features a gradient background composed of light blue, warm orange, and light pink, reminiscent of a sunset. Atop the gradient background is a shape composed of thin, black lines, curves, and loops. Title letters are in bright white and are on top of the shape.

In "On the Way to Theory," Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory, including theorists Kant, Marx, and Heidegger to Foucault, Deleuze, and Hall. Read the intro for free now!
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Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-equality Agenda This article puts forward a cultural‐political formation it terms “model minority authoritarianism.” The idea of the model minority has both been venerated as the virtuous face of immigration and/or n...

Out now: my new article ‘Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-Equality Agenda’ in South Atlantic Quarterly @dukepress.bsky.social (1/9) read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...