After class today I came across this article in the New York Times about the “Dissonant undertones” of M.I.A.s songs. While the author has obviously little capacity to sympathize with ‘terrorists’ there is a pretty reasonable coverage of the conflict between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority. It certainly lights up our discussion of the ‘culture industry’.

see also this video: Delon diss’ MIA

This will be a good point to talk about remix and resistance.