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Alexander Billet

Alexander Billet

Crisis Music

There is something violently schizophrenic in our culture. It is remarkable that, as entire sections of the globe are torn into vicious…

Mar 24, 2018

Crisis Music

Mar 24, 2018

Alexander Billet

Detroit’s Exterminating Angel

July 30

Mar 24, 2018

Detroit’s Exterminating Angel

Mar 24, 2018

Alexander Billet
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Dys/Utopian

To an Ancient Shark

The world’s longest-living vertebrate. Older than Shakespeare they said. (Initially…)

Jan 20, 2018

To an Ancient Shark

Jan 20, 2018

Alexander Billet
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Dys/Utopian

Bono Kills the Planet

A few words of mine on climate change and culture that appeared in the most recent print issue of Jacobin have been liberated from the…

Oct 20, 2017

Bono Kills the Planet

Oct 20, 2017

Alexander Billet
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Dys/Utopian

Crisis Music

There is something violently schizophrenic in our culture. It is remarkable that, as entire sections of the globe are torn into vicious…

Sep 14, 2017

Crisis Music

Sep 14, 2017

Alexander Billet
in
Dys/Utopian

Lewisham. Charlottesville.

Today is the 40th anniversary of what is remembered in Britain as the Battle of Lewisham. On August 13th, 1977, anti-racist demonstrators…

Aug 13, 2017

Lewisham. Charlottesville.

Aug 13, 2017

Alexander Billet
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Dys/Utopian

Detroit’s Exterminating Angel

Before RoboCop was released in theaters thirty years ago this month, it was given an X rating by the Motion Picture Association of America…

Jul 30, 2017

Detroit’s Exterminating Angel

Jul 30, 2017

Alexander Billet
in
Dys/Utopian

They’re Coming to Get You…

From Evan Calder Williams Combined and Uneven Apocalypse, on what made George Romero’s creations so important. Rest in peace you…

Jul 20, 2017

They’re Coming to Get You…

Jul 20, 2017

Alexander Billet
in
Dys/Utopian

Current Mood

Nite Cap coffee shop, Chicago…

May 15, 2017

Current Mood

May 15, 2017

Alexander Billet
in
Dys/Utopian

Laughing at Rich Kids

My latest addition to the time-honored tradition of socialist schadenfreude is up at Jacobin…

May 3, 2017

Laughing at Rich Kids

May 3, 2017

Alexander Billet

Alexander Billet

I think and I write. Rarely in that order. Editor at Red Wedge. Based in Los Angeles. Find me on Twitter: @UbuPamplemousse

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