#irreversable

[athousandgateaux]

The goal of an insurrection is to become irreversible. It becomes irreversible when you’ve defeated both authority and the need for authority…hegemony and the desire for hegemony… Destruction has never been enough to make things irreversible. What matters is how it’s done

The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection, pg. 130-131

[piasgermany]

[Album + Video] Brigitte Calls Me Baby mit ihrem Zweitwerk!

Die Chicagoer Band Brigitte Calls Me Baby kündigt heute ihr zweites Album „Irreversible“ an, welches am 13. März über ATO Records erscheinen wird.

Die Lead-Single „Slumber Party“ zeigt die ikonische Stimme von Frontmann Wes Leavins in voller Pracht, untermalt von treibenden Gitarren und Percussion. Die Band hat nach der Veröffentlichung ihres Debütalbums und einem unermüdlichen Tourneeplan einige turbulente Jahre hinter sich. Mit ausverkauften Tourneen in den USA, Großbritannien und Europa zusammen mit Morrissey, Muse und Fontaines D.C. sowie Fernsehauftritten bei Kimmel, Kelly Clarkson und CBS ist die Band bereit, mit einer mitreißenden Reihe von Songs zurückzukehren, die die Energie und Großartigkeit ihrer Live-Shows voll und ganz einfangen. 

Produziert von Yves Rothman und Lawrence Rothman (Blondshell, Yves Tumor), ist „Irreversible“ der Nachfolger ihres von der Kritik gefeierten Debüts „The Future Is Our Way Out“ aus dem Jahr 2024. Die 11 Songs umfassende LP wurde live in Lawrences Heimstudio aufgenommen und zeigt eine Band, die durch ihre unzähligen Stunden auf Tour tiefgreifend verändert wurde und eine neue Furchtlosigkeit an den Tag legt.

„Slumber Party“ taucht in die dunklen Ecken der menschlichen Psyche ein. Leavins erzählt, dass er „diesen Song geschrieben hat, während er an Menschen dachte, die sich isolieren und grübeln, bis es ihnen schwerfällt, das Haus zu verlassen“. „Slumber Party“ wurde, wie ein Großteil des Albums, unterwegs geschrieben und aus einer Laune heraus in die Setlist für San Diego aufgenommen. Die begeisterte Reaktion des Publikums löste etwas aus – die Band erkannte, dass sie nicht nur Ideen sammelte und Songs schrieb, sondern ein Album aufbaute.

"Irreversible" Tracklisting

There Always

Slumber Party

I Danced With Another Love in My Dreams

The Pit

Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

These Acts of Which Were Designed

Sillage

I Can’t Have You All To Myself

I Can Take the Sun Out of the Sky

The Early Days of Love

Send Those Memories

BCMB LIVE 19.03. Köln - Luxor 20.03. Hamburg - Molotow 22.03. Berlin - Hole 44 23.03. München - Strom 25.03. A-Wien - Chelsea Booking in DE: FKP Scorpio

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[moane-foe]

Love is the best and the sweetest of all moralists; he moderates all the passions except that which he inspires; he corrects vice and crookedness; he reforms the heart. Quote from Michel Masson; The inevitable (1843) Photographer 📷 : @calmette_mang Makeup artist and Scarf 🎨: @diane_belli Models 👥: ornela medzi and @moane_foe Happy Valentine's Day to you my people❣ #valentinesday2019 #irreversable #love #scarf #wax #redstyle #black#smoking #butterfly #androgynous #237 #ignitionshoot (à Vogt) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt4Q1fpHnTK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g24w9nrsipk6

[endlessandrea]

The Alternative is at Hand

Working within the black radical tradition, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney frame a rethink of concepts such as policy and planning, critique and study, debt and credit, and governance and …

“It seems that there is a form of violence that accompanies what Angela Mitropoulos calls the democratisation of sovereignty. We name this violence, or rather its protocols and privileges, “policy”. For an expanded number of people who claim sovereign or settler status today, policy becomes a way to prove this sovereignty, to assert a violently anti-social self-determination of being against what Denise Ferreira Da Silva would call affectable bodies, beings that open through and onto each other, that flourish through a proximity that is always changing, always unsettling.

Policy operates precisely by diagnosing a lack of self-determination in these other beings, and then, crucially, proscribing a ‘remedy’ to fix people who are said to have something wrong with them. But we use this term, policy, because we are not just talking about the long history of governmentality or biopolitics organised around experts or institutions, but of a new, self-deputisation among settlers who nominate themselves as sovereigns. The crude face of this is the American “stand your ground” legislation. But more insidious is the widespread proliferation of self-help, developmental, dietary, educational and psychological programmes that begin with the diagnosis that I am normal, or I have overcome affectability, and others are in need of being changed. Another branch of this, more ineffective perhaps, is the proliferation of political bloggers who have policies for everyone else and, more effectively, the proliferation of NGOs, whose premise is that there is something wrong with whole communities or peoples. These ‘policy’ makers are the equivalent of the knight riders in the Old South in the US – race vigilantes making sovereign law as they terrorise; but the ‘democratisation’ of these knight riders means they are a peril everywhere.

Against these riders, we start from the premise that there is nothing wrong with people, and this allows us, we think, to be attuned to the ongoing planning, the study already under way, among people; the talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice. The notion of a rehearsal – being in a kind of workshop, playing in a band, in a jam session, old men sitting on a porch, or people working together in a factory – there are these various modes of activity. The point of calling it “study” is to mark that the incessant and irreversible intellectuality of these activities is already present. Most of this goes unrecognised because it does not take the form of ‘proper critique’, which is to say it is less vulnerable to being perverted into a diagnosis that whatever problems encountered are because something is wrong with those people over there. Such policy will either be effective in changing them or they will be placed in a zone of exclusion.”

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