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from Y by Holy '57

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the city

sunder rajan lecture:
even the most resolutely anticolonial, socialist are caught in webs of neoliberal global capital in all sorts of ways

holy '57:
we live in a city that runs on our lives
it counts us in packets and bits it classifies
and stitches us together to make capitalised
the self iterated and commodified

architecture twisted with algorithmic eyes
im dizzy in the database im digitally blind
welcome to our institution! our great institution!
applaud our elocution! we are an institution!

it is a question of politics
it is a question of religion
it is a question of communication
it is a question of democracy
it is a question of science
it is a question of hard fact
it is a question of opinion
it is not a question

we built us a city to govern our lives
it predicts it promotes provides and elides
but who chose this future? and who made this mind?
and who stands to gain? and who gets to mine?

infrastructure coded on interrupted lines
drunken on commodities im looking for a fight
bring down the institution! bring down the algorithm!
all hail our revolution! a great new institution!

it is a matter of economics
it is a matter of history
it is a matter of taste
it is a matter of free speech
it is a matter of pseudoscience
it is a matter of truth
it is a matter without fact
it doesnt matter at all

we love this institution we love this institution
we love the algorithm we love this institution

sunder rajan lecture:
its an imagination of the poor that presumes technocracy - that you build a technology and it will get down to the poor - and that presumes the seamless functioning of trickle down economics
within the question of representation at the end of the day you are still dealing with elite communities who are speaking for others who are not at the table
elite communities elite communities elite communities

holy '57:
it is my mother and father
it is my sister and brother
it is my lover and teacher
it is my office and healer
it is my favourite things
it is my intimate thoughts
it is my future and past
but it is not me

it is a matter of economics
it is a matter of history
it is a matter of taste
it is a matter of free speech
it is a matter of pseudoscience
it is a matter of truth
it is a matter without fact
it doesnt matter at all

credits

from Y, track released June 12, 2020
writ & perf // holy ‘57
mix & prod // holy '57
add. mix // dave newfeld
drums // arun dhanjal
master // carl rosamond
art // lauren messervy

released on tenwest

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