A Multinational Pastime, Strange Addictions, and Dancing with McKenzie Wark
Volume 46 Issue 9 — April 28, 2023
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Featured Pieces
For Indy World, Caleb Stutman-Shaw B’25 re-contextualizes the United States versus Japan World Baseball Classic final in light of the imperial imposition of baseball on Japan by the United States during the Meiji era. Baseball in Japan grew a more complex relationship to Japanese national identity over the coming century, becoming a means de resistance and symbol of national pride, he adds.
“It is likely that for many watching the post-game celebrations, the tangled history of the two represented nations was not apparent. But sport has never simply been spectacle.” Read more here.
In Feats for Issue 9, Anabelle Johnston B’23 takes up My Strange Addiction as a lead in to her personal narrative of obsession, compulsion, and reformation. She threads in the opioid epidemic and Nan Goldin, her Nana’s degradation after being prescribed OxyContin, the aesthetic boundaries that define the difference between abject and tragic, and her own recovery from the cycle.
“I mop my floor. I let my hair air-dry, except in February. I take up poetry and have less to apologize for.” Read here.
In Arts, Kolya Shields B’24 interviews Raving author and pop-culture theory girl McKenzie Wark. Through the interview, Shields gets Wark’s apolitical take on rave as primarily a space of dissociation, unburdened by musical history. Wark wants readers to know that the rave resists representation.
“Why does everything have to be a ‘politics?’ If everything is political then nothing is. It's such an over-inflated term. There’s power in culture, there’s power in aesthetics.” Wark comments. Read Shields’s interview here.
Also in this week’s issue:
The Bulletin
Upcoming events and local organizing. Read here.
Week in Review
Week in YAS 😝🐔 — by Charlie Medeiros B’24 and Corinne Leong B’24
Arts
Share the Fantasy — by Justin Scheer B’23
Ephemera
Rooms — by Camilla Watson B’23
Literary
A Small House in South Jersey — by Evan Donnachie B’24
Metro
“Fifteen Bucks Is Not Enough” — by Li Ding R’26 and Sarah Mann MID’26
S&T
The Ghost in the Record(ing) — by Eric Guo B’23
X
Ballet Recital (Flipbook) — by Joshua Koolik B’24
Dear Indy
LinkedIndie — by Annie Stein B’24
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