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Album review: ‘Days of Ash’ by U2

Album review: ‘Days of Ash’ by U2

U2’s listless liberal, pacifist, religious politics are less poignant than ever, and the band retreads similar sonic ground to prior work that is less able to make up for the lyrics’ weaknesses than it did in the ’80s.
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The P. Diddy scandal as a product of the decline of monopoly capitalism

The P. Diddy scandal as a product of the decline of monopoly capitalism

In hip-hop circles it is often said that rap has won over the market; in reality, the process was the opposite: the capitalist market appropriated rap. By Hertz Dias* “While stimulating the progressive development of technique, competition gradually consumes, not only the intermediary layers, but itself as well. Over the corpses and the semi-corpses of […]
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