A teaser from an upcoming book Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution (2022) Yasmin El-Rifae detailing Cairo’s Tahrir Square events from ten years ago. The story follows activists working in the Opantish network.
Then I came back on the 30th and went straight from the airport to Opantish. And as soon as I saw the streets, I knew. I knew that we (the revolution) had lost.
Wickedest Sound (2022) 99% invisible. A good vibe podcast offering a DJ oriented narrative of the development of sound systems in Jamaica. I particularly like that operators and engineers where considered a part of the system. A good companion for Edward George’s The Strangeness of Dub (2019) mentioned earlier.
Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires (2022) Cyber (Matthew Gault). An interview with Douglas Rushkoff exposing billionaire worldviews. Not surprising but enjoyable to reconfirm. If something was surprising it was Rushkoff’s soft flirtation with ecososialism and permaculture.