Reflections on a Revolutionary and Music

After spending years in prison for armed actions with the French urban guerrilla group Action directe, Jean-Marc Rouillan shared in an interview his reflections on the role of music in his political development and on the broader politics of rock‘n’roll. This essay responds to Rouillan’s reflections. Noting rock‘n’roll’s dual identity as rebel music and a mass commercial enterprise, the essay sees hopefulness, naiveté, and arrogance in Rouillan’s insistence that to stay true to its roots rock music must shun profit. The essay argues the value of recovering radical moments in popular culture while cautioning against idealizing cultural forms.Après des années d’emprisonnement suite à son action armée au sein de l’organisation française de guérilla urbaine Action directe, Jean-Marc Rouillan a donné un entretien au gré duquel il partage ses réflexions sur le rôle de la musique dans son propre engagement politique, et plus largement sur les politiques du rock‘n’roll. Cet essai répond aux réflexions de Rouillan. Relevant l’identité duale du rock‘n’roll – à la fois musique rebelle et entreprise commerciale de masse –, nous notons l’optimisme, la naïveté et l’arrogance avec lesquelles Rouillan insiste sur la nécessité qu’a le rock à fuir le profit afin de rester fidèle à ses racines. Soulignant l’intérêt d’un tel retour sur des moments radicaux de la culture populaire, cet essai met en garde contre l’idéalisation de formes culturelles

Geographical migration and fitness dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of pneumonia and meningitis worldwide. Many different serotypes co-circulate endemically in any one location1,2. The extent and mechanisms of spread and vaccine-driven changes in fitness and antimicrobial resistance remain largely unquantified. Here using geolocated genome sequences from South Africa (n = 6,910, collected from 2000 to 2014), we developed models to reconstruct spread, pairing detailed human mobility data and genomic data. Separately, we estimated the population-level changes in fitness of strains that are included (vaccine type (VT)) and not included (non-vaccine type (NVT)) in pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, first implemented in South Africa in 2009. Differences in strain fitness between those that are and are not resistant to penicillin were also evaluated. We found that pneumococci only become homogenously mixed across South Africa after 50 years of transmission, with the slow spread driven by the focal nature of human mobility. Furthermore, in the years following vaccine implementation, the relative fitness of NVT compared with VT strains increased (relative risk of 1.68; 95% confidence interval of 1.59–1.77), with an increasing proportion of these NVT strains becoming resistant to penicillin. Our findings point to highly entrenched, slow transmission and indicate that initial vaccine-linked decreases in antimicrobial resistance may be transient

Dossier: \u3cem\u3eThe Fall\u3c/em\u3e

From Alienation to Hallucination: Peter Whitehead\u27s The Fall and the Politics of Perception in the 1960sTina RiversAfter The Fall: Politics, Representation, and the Permanence of Empire in the Cinema of Peter WhiteheadJeremy VaronPeter Whitehead\u27s The Fall RevisitedMarjorie RosenNew York Film Festival Invitation Letter, 1967Framework EditorsThe Fall Dossier: ExtractsPeter WhiteheadTwo Film Treatments: Protest and The FallPeter WhiteheadSecond Take of Imaginary NarrationPeter WhiteheadManifesto: Re Self in FilmPeter WhiteheadThe Inner Space Project, Review Essay, Afterimage: Film and Politics, 1970John LyleI Destroy Therefore I Am . . . , Interview, Films and Filming, 1969Peter WhiteheadI Dream Therefore I Am. I Doubt Therefore I Film, Guardian, 2002Peter Whitehea

The rise of capitalism and the roots of anti-American terrorism

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization or decreases with higher levels of economic openness. However, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism, whereas the process of marketization fuels it. This suggests that interest groups that have benefitted from the pre-market order deliberately target the USA, where anti-American terrorism serves the purpose of limiting the perceived marketization and Americanization of their communities