After a decade of putting out self-produced art pop that made her one of music’s most singular figures, she abruptly left the industry amid personal life chaos. Now she's back with a new album, and, as she tells sci-fi author Nnedi Okorafor, a little AI psychosis.
When We're Born We Forget Everything: A Memoir
From the creator of the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter project Girls in Trouble, a memoir following her journey from a secular Jewish childhood to becoming a modern queer woman owning ancient teachings and finding her own meanings in them, refracted through feminist interpretations of the lives of Biblical women.“Alicia Jo Rabins writes as if she’s in conversation with the divine itself. . . .This isn’t merely a book to be read—it’s a scripture for the searching heart, a reminder that the border between the human and the holy is, and always has been, porous.” —Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of NazarethAs a self-described ‘90s suburban high school weirdo, Alicia Jo Rabins spent her time practicing violin and smoking cigarettes behind the mall while secretly dreaming of setting out on a spiritual quest no one around her seemed to understand. She often found herself drawn to the more ritualistic and rigorous Judaism that her parents had abandoned to assimilate and “become American.” In college, a chance meeting led her on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to study rabbinical texts (and play bluegrass fiddle on the street for cash). But that two years of immersing herself in traditional observance was only the start of a journey full of twists and turns.When We’re Born We Forget Everything follows Alicia’s relentless, often embarrassing, sometimes enlightening search for the sacred in everyday life as she tours America playing with a klezmer-punk band, falls in and out of love, scrapes through the initiations of motherhood, and witnesses the beauty—and danger—of mysticism. Rabins braids this personal narrative with the hidden stories of biblical women, uncovering a path of queer identity, feminist awakening, and spiritual self-invention. This lyrical, searching memoir is a meditation on longing, lineage, and what it takes to find meaning in a fractured world.
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For the past few years, Mark Manson-via his wildly popular blog-has been working on correcting ou...
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‘I Don’t Think We’re All F***ed Anymore’
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‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn
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Appreciating Alan Wake’s Adverb Apocalypse
Alan Wake wears the veil of pulp horror with all the silliness it entails, hiding a valuable message about art under its surface.
Stonemachia
Fight, Zefiro! Arm yourself with the power of chess and explore Medhelan, a land haunted by the Plague of Angels, in a dark action-adventure with soulslike elements. Will you be able to return to Heaven?
Inside the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Era of AI in Music
From juicing demos to cloning vocals, AI music tools are creeping into the workflows of top producers, songwriters and artists. It’s mostly happening behind closed doors — for now
What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs (Published 2014)
The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.
Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on Making Art with AI and What the Discourse Is Missing
The artists talk process, slop, and why optimism and pessimism don’t quite cover it.
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