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Putting ‘Yeezus’ Aside: Jasiri X’s Urgent Spreadable Media by Mark Anthony Neal | NewBlackMan (in Exile)


In a celebrated and much remarked upon three-minute spot that aired during Game 5 of the NBA finals, artist and entrepreneur Jay Z remarked  “we don’t have any rules, everybody’s trying to figure it out. That’s why the internet is like the Wild West…the Wild, Wild West.”  It was an admission from one of the most visible tastemakers of urban culture that the old models of the culture business have long given way to a great unknown.  Of course Mr. Carter can make such pronouncements with the backing of Samsung and Live Nation—the only risks he’s really taking are purely aesthetic.

For an artist like Jasiri X, and many others, the Wild, Wild West is more than a metaphor.  Jasiri X has staked his career on producing urgent spreadable media that undermines the very structures erected to keep a broader public from accessing thoughtful media, not sanctioned by the major media outlets and corporations…

via Putting ‘Yeezus’ Aside: Jasiri X’s Urgent Spreadable Media by Mark Anthony Neal | NewBlackMan (in Exile).

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I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.
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