Paul Rekret

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

Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and I have a piece out in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Trump.

spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...

The Saint Monday Mixtapes
Mix 2: Dance, Dance Refusal
Mixed by Paul Rekret
www.spreaker.com/episode/danc...
‪@paulrekret.bsky.social

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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New Wire! For this issue I reviewed a new book on improvisation... Excited to read the Hosono interview

This is very exciting

This should be great. All welcome

Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org

📢 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.

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Oh ffs, not again

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Sam Fisher on Samuel Delany as a theorist of racial capitalism, at ucl this Friday. Will be very good. All welcome www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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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!

Image credit: Eastern Surf, ilovemyjob! (2017) Image courtesy of the artists

📢Our next Seminar:
'The Working Day in Contemporary Art',
Kirsten Lloyd.

Friday 28th February, 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.

📢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...

Issue-17 Woman, Life, Freedom: The Sounds of A Revolution

darkmatter-hub.pubpub.org/issue-17-wom... Special Issue darkmatter journal #darkmatter

We @camri.bsky.social are hosting a reading/thinking group with @ericdrott.bsky.social.

Discussing Eric's excellent working paper on the Political Economy of Music AI. Please contact me or @paulrekret.bsky.social for a copy.

4th March, 3.30-5pm, Central London (Regent Street) - in person only.

Ep 2: Cooking up a Storm Workers' Inquiry · Episode

Here it is guys, finally you can hear me, on the brilliant @notesfrombelow.bsky.social podcast, complaining about working in restaurants

open.spotify.com/episode/108Q...

Paul Rekret. Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2024. 200 pp. | Critical Inquiry: Vol 51, No 2

There's a nice review of my book in the latest issue of Critical Inquiry, "It is Du Bois’s tradition of aesthetics, which takes seriously the unstable vessel of music in the context of racial capitalism, that Paul Rekret’s Take This Hammer corresponds to." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

"Yet, as the crises Rekret foregrounds continue unabated,we will need fresh tools and texts to make sense of future compositions of music and resistance that may come to mediate the dissonance of everyday life- and Take This Hammer should be amongst them." ahhh this warms my tiny little heart

There's a really thoughtful review of my book in here alongside all this other good stuff

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

The thing about these sorts of arguments (to which I subscribe btw) is not to fall into nostalgia for the pre-streaming film industry, which was still awful and exploitative

Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...

Good on Netflix, the distracted viewing model and what its doing to cinema www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

MS Word is Using You to Train AI How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents

How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...

I have a chart in here alongside alot of brilliant critics...

How To.... A couple of years back on Twitter, someone was asking me if I had practical tips for anyone who wanted to start music reviewing – as I started to reply I realised they’d be worth saving so I posted...

Jotted down some hard won knowledge about how to get started in music journalism. If you think this is useful to anyone, please share.

Nice to see Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, the documentary about the intersections of American jazz and the Lumumba assassination, is in cinemas now... I reviewed it last Spring here www.thewire.co.uk/issues/482