Culture: The Unintended Consequences of Looking Sideways

Luis Tsukayama-Cisneros's public scholarship, photography and visual documentation

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Why contemporary music sucks?

January 06, 2024 by Luis Tsukayama Cisneros in Music

This is just a personal opinion: a lot of people have been saying for a few years now that contemporary music sucks, that it is not as good as music was in the 80s or 90s…. And I kind of agree with that. I listen to a lot of music, I make music, but I am also a social scientist.

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January 06, 2024 /Luis Tsukayama Cisneros
music, Critical thinking, Rock, Sociology, Pop, popular culture
Music
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In praise of dirty, sexy cities

September 22, 2015 by Luis Tsukayama Cisneros in Sociological imagination, Urban life

Here's a link to an excellent article about the importance of the seedier aspects of cities around the world. This is not Marxist nostalgia or a form of utopia. On the contrary, I believe much of what Benjamin loved about these cities (Marseille, Napoli and Moscow) is what has made New York City great but it is rapidly losing it as well.

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September 22, 2015 /Luis Tsukayama Cisneros
Urban, Sociology, Capitalism, Creativity, Cities, New York City, Walter Benjamin, Critical theory
Sociological imagination, Urban life
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