Ceremony ZOO Review Essay, part two

Death Before Dishonor is a Boston band. They champion what I call “muscular hardcore,” more metal than punk, and utilize breakdowns and even verse-chorus song structures. Politically, the band, and others like them (Agnostic Front, Hatebreed, Terror, Palehorse, Lionheart, Death Threat, etc.) are hard to categorize in an American context. This […]

Ceremony ZOO Review Essay, part one

I embraced hardcore music in 2008. After having lived amongst Romans, Ultras, skinheads, and fascists for more than year, a return to normal/bourgeois/American life was simply not possible. Even for my wife such a return was impossible. (Anyone who dissuades you from having your spouse in the field is misleading you. Of course, my wife […]

Amusing 3

Would anyone at Anthropology News even be capable of a conversation on the cultural costs of illegal immigration? I read every issue’s obligatory article on heroic border crossers (Heroic for what? Being starved into drastic measures of appetite satiation? The never-ending search for bourgeois comfort?) while waiting for one person courageous enough to wonder why […]

Amusing too: White Apocalypse

Everyone involved in academia should be forced to read Chapter Two of Kyle Bristow’s White Apocalypse. He demonstrates with great care the functioning of a truth regime in the service of liberal multiculturalism. It sure is warm and cozy for the happy slaves inside, but when you step foot beyond the regime’s protective grace, you’ll […]