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really the rap game looks a lot like the art game

shout out hyperallergic for giving me some space to write about the new book. quick excerpt:

In her original Japanese edition [of the autobiography], Kusama refers to the area in New York where she used to live transforming into a “slum,” with real estate prices “falling by $5 a day.” She attributes this to “black people shooting each other out front, and homeless people sleeping there.”

When the English translation of Infinity Net came out in 2011, this sentence was missing. It was not a mistranslation. The rest of the paragraph was intact; only the sentence about Black and unhoused people was deleted.

At the time, I was unsure what to make of this omission. However, after reading 1945 to Now, I’m starting to think that this was an early sign of a strategy to subtly sanitize Kusama for Western audiences, reinventing her so as to improve her marketability.

more here:

Here’s what we talked about on today’s Twitch stream:

Jason Koebler came through with a sneak peek of this doc:

Then we had Dan Ming on to talk about this doc:

Here’s what we talked about on today’s Twitch stream:

Well, this is awkward.

We brought on Nick and Nikki to talk about this minidoc we made together:

And then Janus to talk about why Bluesky needs to stay weird

And, VICE Book Club:

see you soon.

Here’s what we talked about on today’s Twitch stream:

We had on Pallavi to talk about why India is deleting parts of its own history textbooks, including parts about evolution, and Gandhi’s assassination. We also referenced this article a lot.

Then Alexis and Marisa to talk about why a black high schooler is getting ready to sue Ron DeSantis:

Also, Carter came through to talk about Trump being found liable for sexual abuse.

And lastly, a discussion of this piece of Internet history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD7X9SCn0To

And that’s it for this time.