Dave Mandl’s writing has appeared in The Wire, The Believer, The Register, The Comics Journal, The Rumpus, Volume 1 Brooklyn, and other publications. He was the longtime music editor at The Brooklyn Rail and an editor at Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia. He hosts the radio show World of Echo at WFMU and plays the bass guitar in various groups.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Data Mining for Humanists
Big Data is watching you, and Lev Manovich thinks that’s just fine....
Screwing Up Is What We Do
Dave Mandl examines Tom Phillips’s book “Humans,” which details the many ways we’ve screwed up....
Dave Brubeck Unsquared: On Philip Clark’s New Biography
Dave Mandl takes five with “Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time” by Philip Clark....
Need You — Baby
Dave Mandl consults “Where to Score,” a collection of classified ads culled from the pages of the “San Francisco Oracle.”...
The Gentrification of Boston’s South End
What is interesting about the South End story is what it reveals about gentrification generally, old or new, diverse or not....
Hidden Histories
Dave Mandl on urban history and John Rogers's thinking-out-loud travelogue, "This Other London."...
Performance Anxiety: David Grubbs’s “Records Ruin the Landscape”
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording...
A Master Class in the Avant-Garde: Alvin Lucier’s “Music 109”
ALVIN LUCIER'S MUSIC 109 is one of the oddest books about music I’ve ever come across. Lucier has been an ...
