The Political Power of Punk: Dead Kennedys’ “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables”

Tag: art

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reading some books from the 33 1/3 series, specifically Nick Attfield’s on Dinosaur Jr.’s 1987 album You’re Living All Over Me and Michael Stewart Foley’s on Dead Kennedys’ 1980 album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. Each has been thoroughly engaging, and Attfield’s writing serves, in a lot ways, as a master class on writing about music while Foley’s does an … Read More The Political Power of Punk: Dead Kennedys’ “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables”

October 30, 2025 + art, camps des milles, holocaust, kendrick lamar, Mary Berg, resistance, Viktor Frankl

The Importance of Art as Resistance and Existence

by Matthew Teutsch

A few weeks ago, someone told me about the work of neurologist and psychologist Viktor Frankl and his time in a concentration camp duroing World War II. After the person told me about Frankl, I sought out his memoir Man’s Search for Meaning where he lays out his ideas surrounding logotherapy. Frankl explains that logotherapy, which derives from logos, the Greek word for “meaning,” “focuses on the meaning of … Read More The Importance of Art as Resistance and Existence

September 18, 2025 + anna seghers, art, Charlie Chaplin, Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh, Max Ernst, Natalia Ginzburg

Why We Need Art!

by Matthew Teutsch

A few weeks ago, as I was scrolling through my social media feed, someone commented on Chris Smith’s Devo, a documentary on the Akron, Ohio band. The post pointed out that watching the band’s early performances during the 1970s really solidified them within the lineage of punk. Taken together with their ideological positions and aesthetic, Devo embody punk. Inspired by the Dadaist and other twentieth … Read More Why We Need Art!

April 17, 2025 + art, Paul Gauguin, ralph waldo emerson, vincent van gogh, wilma dykeman

Look at the Landscape Through Your Legs: How Our Imagination Shapes Our View of the World

by Matthew Teutsch

In her posthumously published memoir Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood, Wilma Dykeman asks us to think about the ways that we process reality and the stories we hear and share. Dykeman wrote the manuscript in her twenties in the early 1940s. Early on, she details learning to walk and learning to speak, moments that most people do not remember at all. I know, … Read More Look at the Landscape Through Your Legs: How Our Imagination Shapes Our View of the World

December 7, 2023 + a virtuous woman, kaye gibbons, Kristen Ghodsee, sex, socialism

How Transactional Relationships Harm Intimacy

by Matthew Teutsch

Over the past few months, I constantly walked by Kristen Ghodsee’s Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence on the shelf at my library. I would pick it up, periodically, and flip through it, telling myself I’d check it out one day and read it. I finally checked it out last week and read it. Ghodsee lays her argument outset when … Read More How Transactional Relationships Harm Intimacy

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The Political Power of Punk: Dead Kennedys’ “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables”

Tag: art