Author Archives: politicalkaraoke

Elliot Smith performing at the 70th Academy Awards, March, 1998

John Lennon performing “Mother” at Madison Square Garden, NY, August 30, 1972

Elvis Presley performing “In The Ghetto,” Las Vegas, NV, February 1970 (?)

Wing performing “In The Ghetto,” Wellington, NZ, March, 2007

A karaoke performance of “Emotion” by Yu/Yoo Chae Young (?) on a Korean television show, 200?

Fearless Speech

Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia http://foucault.info/documents/parrhesia/ Six lectures given by Michel Foucault at the University of California at Berkeley, Oct. – Nov. 1983 “My intention was not to deal with the problem of truth, but with the problem of truth-teller or truth-telling as an activity. By this I mean that, for me, it [...]

Woody Guthrie, circa 1941, photograph by Lester Balog