Daniel Felsenthal

Sudan Archives: The BPM Read Daniel Felsenthal’s review of the album.

Wrote about the wildly heart-pumping new Sudan Archives album for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

I was so glad to write an exhibition text for Jon Setter and his fantastic new show of photographs, “Sydney Beaches: Saturated Edge,” which is up at 8 Wall Gallery in Sydney until November 1. You can read what I wrote here: 8wallgallery.org/exhibitions/...

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

“Lewdness” Arrests Up at NYC Penn Station Bathrooms, Police Likely Using Sniffies 20 people were reportedly arrested in a single day this month.

Cops affiliated with @amtrak.com are using Sniffies to lure gay men to Penn Station bathrooms, arrest them, and in certain cases, turn them over to ICE. This is entrapment and no one should stand for it. www.them.us/story/nyc-pe...

Very glad to be supporting this excellent cause and organization alongside my partner in crime/music Max Gordon at Baby’s All Right on October 15. 3 People is joining a true marquee lineup of music and comedy talent! Buy tix here ⬇️ wl.eventim.us/event/asc-be...

"People don't think power be like it is, but it do." bald theory man [foucault]

Columbia punished our kids for protesting against the genocide in Gaza. We condemn the university’s cowardice We are the parents of students who faced disciplinary actions for pro-Palestine activism. The struggle for liberation will not end with suspensions and expulsions

As the new semester starts, I want to keep the focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza (and US complicity in it).

Honored to have the chance to co-write this with another parent whose child was suspended from Barnard/Columbia for protest activity.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Can't wait to drive around town in my pick-up with two trans flags out the back, breaking traffic laws, breaking my muffler so my celebration is louder, daring the haters, honking my horn

The production is A+ but I do wish it didn't end with Norman Finklestein offering a pedantic take on "from the river to the sea...as Jesse implies, the logic of including only Jewish and Israeli voices is a questionably efficacious response to the environment of repression that exists today.

Also perhaps an example of when the review is more liberated and potent than the music itself....it indeed does happen.

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Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles: RA.1000 Read Jesse Dorris’ review of the mix.

So glad that @pitchfork.com publishes pieces like this one by Jesse Doris, which—like the Terre Thaemlitz music under discussion—provokes thought and offers proof of free speech's power at once. End the genocide in Palestine. Support writing that tells the truth: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Yeah so the first time AI overview has been unavailable is when I searched for how to get a COVID vaccine

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Wonderful to see this. Essex was my cousin (his father Warren was my uncle) and though I only met him a few times as a young person his spirit has always inspired me. Good time to check out this remarkable performance with other DC artists.

Essex Hemphill: From the Anacostia to the Potomac

Down by the Schoolyard | Daniel Felsenthal At Brooklyn’s Amant, a group show examines the complexities of modern-day education—and the parallels between campus and prison.

At a time when public schooling is under attack, a group show considers how we educate our students—and how students can fight for their education. Daniel Felsenthal reviews a recent exhibition in Brooklyn, on view through August 17.

Essex Hemphill’s Poetry of Belonging He was an artist and activist who found in his verse a tool for both community and agitprop.

Essex Hemphill’s Poetry of Belonging

He was an artist and activist who found in his verse a tool for both community and agitprop.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Here’s a personal, precise, anger-making analysis that examines a group show as clues and cues that unravel the terror and sadness of surveillance-state education. I can’t recall "art writing” quite like this. Bravo Daniel, and Baffler.

Note to folks who also use X/Twitter. My X account was hacked and my request to get it back was quickly denied, for no good reason.

A Book Called Fascism or Genocide That’s Reluctant to Discuss Either Ross Barkan’s engrossing, literary analysis of the 2024 election disappoints with its blinkered vision of U.S. politics.

For @newrepublic.com , I wrote about the stylishly written new book by Ross Barkan, Fascism or Genocide, which purports to deal with fascism in America and genocide in Palestine but actually deals with neither newrepublic.com/article/1980...

Powerful analysis of a political culture that uses Barkan's book as a series of writing springboards.

A Book Called Fascism or Genocide That’s Reluctant to Discuss Either Ross Barkan’s engrossing, literary analysis of the 2024 election disappoints with its blinkered vision of U.S. politics.

For @newrepublic.com , I wrote about the stylishly written new book by Ross Barkan, Fascism or Genocide, which purports to deal with fascism in America and genocide in Palestine but actually deals with neither newrepublic.com/article/1980...

Essex Hemphill’s thrilling work has been almost impossible to find, but a new, crucial reissue of his erotic, affectionate, even intersectional poetry is available, and this Nation essay by Daniel Felsenthal explains in gorgeous detail why it can’t be missed.

Let the beans burn all night long.

Down by the Schoolyard | Daniel Felsenthal At Brooklyn’s Amant, a group show examines the complexities of modern-day education—and the parallels between campus and prison.

Surveillance doesn’t make students safer—yet students are watched relentlessly, and campuses have become testing grounds for assaults on personal liberty. @dfelsenthal.bsky.social reviews a new show that asks: Under such circumstances, how to go on educating?

Essex Hemphill’s Poetry of Belonging He was an artist and activist who found in his verse a tool for both community and agitprop.

I wrote about the humane, profound and until now quite difficult to find poetry of Essex Hemphill for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Down by the Schoolyard | Daniel Felsenthal At Brooklyn’s Amant, a group show examines the complexities of modern-day education—and the parallels between campus and prison.

For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about the surveillance state and education in the U.S., and how an incisive group art show in Brooklyn is affectionately, indignantly, sorrowfully taking stock of education’s history and status quo thebaffler.com/latest/down-...

One very good movie about those expulsions was made by Zohran’s mom

This is a profoundly racist non *scoop* that @nytimes.com received from a eugenicist whose name they’re concealing. Impossible to understand how anyone could take that publication seriously. They’ve willfully misunderstood the complexity of identity in favor of clickbait headlines… awful journalism

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

"Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. ... Our form of communication is gunfire."