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Paul Rekret

@paulrekret.bsky.social

Write and research music, media and popular culture. Latest book, 'Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis'. Teach in School of Media and Communication, University of Westminster

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Paul Rekret@paulrekret.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Sorry, one more post: in this new article I try to connect the abstracting power of money through social crises of the late 1990s by way of rap music aesthetics in that era www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sensuous Abstraction: hip-hop, money and the popular

This article examines the absorption of hip-hop into the upper echelons of the popular music charts. It identifies 1997 as a pivotal turning point in this history and focuses on three albums releas...

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Toby Bennett@tgpb.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This article is great! It offers a contribution to conceptualisations of "real abstraction" by asking how music helps us come to *feel* exchange value. MORE IMPORTANTLY it genuinely provides an answer to this age-old question:

Image of what appears to be a shiny room, lit from multiple directions, as in a Hype Williams video - but is on closer inspection a handy kitchen appliance. Caption reads: "Why does the inside of a cheese grater look like every rap music video from the early 2000s?"
Paul Rekret@paulrekret.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Just published open access @jcultecon.bsky.social. On the aestheticisation of money in hip-hop; a cultural logic since generalised. Its also a theorisation of mediations of political economy and cultural form operating across scales of time and space www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Paul Rekret@paulrekret.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Just published open access @jcultecon.bsky.social. On the aestheticisation of money in hip-hop; a cultural logic since generalised. Its also a theorisation of mediations of political economy and cultural form operating across scales of time and space www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sensuous Abstraction: hip-hop, money and the popular

This article examines the absorption of hip-hop into the upper echelons of the popular music charts. It identifies 1997 as a pivotal turning point in this history and focuses on three albums releas...

tandfonline.com

Paul Rekret@paulrekret.bsky.social · 11mo ago

FIVE HUNDRED ISSUES! I've been reading since I was 19 and my roommate would bring em back from the bookshop he worked at.. alot of issues ago. Anyhow, I wrote about a new film on Irish folk music for this issue

The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Wire 500 is out now! Featuring a special commemorative silver gatefold Wire 500 artwork by Savage Pencil, plus features on Natural Information Society, Fay Victor, OvO, Weston Olencki, Bitchin Bajas, Lea Bertucci, and many, many more. Available to buy here: www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

Paul Rekret@paulrekret.bsky.social · last yr.

For this issue I wrote about Gaza Sound Man, a film about Mohammad Yaghi. The film is extraordinary and Yaghi is the most important sound artist working today

The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

The Wire 499 is out now! Featuring a 10-page Cabaret Voltaire special, plus DJ Haram's Invisible Jukebox, Earshot, Moreskinsound, SANAM, Michael Hurley, Chris Burn, 40 pages of reviews and more. Copies are available to buy from our webshop now, & on newsstands from 7 Aug: www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

Toby Bennett@tgpb.bsky.social · last yr.

Critical Thought Maintenance: or, How to mediate intellectual and organisational form (and get away with it!) Two sessions exploring how the conditions for collective critical thinking get put together. London Conference in Critical Thought @ Birkbeck, 20-21 June More: www.londoncritical.co.uk

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Internet Archive@archive.org · last yr.

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org
Paul Rekret@paulrekret.bsky.social · last yr.

This discussion of Trump etc with @jamiemerchant.bsky.social is by far the best and sharpest account of the current faultlines among the American capitalist class I've come across itsgoingdown.org/trump-the-te...

Trump, the Tech-Right, and the Post-Neoliberal Order

In this episode of The Beautiful Idea, we present an interview with author Jamie Merchant, author of Engame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline and numerous articles at The Brooklyn Rail. Merchan...

itsgoingdown.org

Paul Rekret@paulrekret.bsky.social · last yr.

Nice write up in Tribune about music and 'lost futures' happens to call my book "the most successful attempt to reposition music and critique within a radical project fit for the current conjuncture." 😎😎😎 tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/no-m...

No More Lost Futures

A new book making the case for internet-centric electronic musicians like SOPHIE, FKA Twigs and Oneohtrix Point Never is part of a growing wave of thinkers consigning the ‘lost futures’ discourse of t...

tribunemag.co.uk

Rebecca Bramall@rfbramall.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re looking forward to contributing to the CAMRI research seminar series next Thurs 27 Feb at 17.00. We’ll be talking about our research on meanings and practices of redistribution in the context of digitalization. All welcome; details in the link.

Thanks to @tgpb.bsky.social for the invite!

Toby Bennett@tgpb.bsky.social · 2y ago

27 Feb. CAMRI Seminar with Jon Paylor and Rebecca Bramall (@rfbramall.bsky.social). On Mutual Aid in a Platform Economy. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-pl...

Marxism in Culture@marxisminculture.bsky.social · last yr.

📢Our March Seminar: '3 Model of Form: Samuel Delany as a Theorist of Racial Capitalism, With Samuel Fisher. Friday 28th March, 5.30-7.30pm, @UCL_IAS IAS Common Ground, G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

3 Model of Form: Samuel Delany as a Theorist of Racial Capitalism

We welcome you to this Marxism in Culture seminar with Samuel Fisher, who will discuss the paraliterary writings of Samuel R. Delany as occasions to think about how the literary mediates social form.

ucl.ac.uk

Paul Rekret@paulrekret.bsky.social · 2y ago

RIP. Here's Simon on rank and file organising in Poland in the early 80s libcom.org/article/pola...

Poland 1980-1982: Class struggle and the crisis of capital - Henri Simon

Henri Simon's brilliant and detailed account and analysis of the militant working class struggles in Poland from 1980 to 1982 which were a major contributing factor to the downfall of the USSR.

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Pavlos Roufos@proufos.bsky.social · 2y ago

Henri Simon has died today. A militant marxist and proponent of council communism, Henri was a founding member of Socialisme ou Barbarie. He was also a good friend and a comrade with an unsurpassed history of experience and struggles. Goodbye friend ✊