https://newrural.org New Rural Sun, 17 May 2026 19:12:43 +0000 https://newrural.org en https://newrural.org/Listening-Anenon-Dream-Temperatur Sun, 17 May 2026 19:12:43 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Listening-Anenon-Dream-Temperatur Listening Brian Allen Simon, creator of the avant-ambient musical project Anenon, moves his musical practice forward into a feverish, unfettered space that he’s hinted at mostly in his excellent live shows. Highly recommended—pair with a humid evening and an Alsace Pinot Noir.&nbsp; Dream Temperature by Anenon <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/235a43fa580897223568f82355b9472f3ba29fe81366eb57ecc902950dccaf7c/Anenon_DreamTemprature.jpg" data-mid="248413558" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/235a43fa580897223568f82355b9472f3ba29fe81366eb57ecc902950dccaf7c/Anenon_DreamTemprature.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/Dondis Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:34:41 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Dondis A More Tenuous Means of Understanding “The Industrial Revolution brought one dynamic change to all things made by machine, craftsman, and artist; no longer were they produced on commission, but rather on speculation. Here is the product, created or manufactured; will someone want it? All of the give-and-take between maker and user, then, is broken down, giving way to a more tenuous means of understanding"Donis A. Dondis A Primer of Visual Literacy <img width="1400" height="1867" width_o="1400" height_o="1867" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/248ff8e2a0a2ee79640747464cd8c673a15bb12a87e36756336cca5af266d75e/new-rural_industrial.jpg" data-mid="247190181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/248ff8e2a0a2ee79640747464cd8c673a15bb12a87e36756336cca5af266d75e/new-rural_industrial.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/Listening-Pauline-Oliveros-Andrew-Deutsch Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:34:28 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Listening-Pauline-Oliveros-Andrew-Deutsch Listening A delicate sound collage from 1999 by composer Pauline Oliveros and sound artist Andrew Deutsch. Oliveros was committed to a kind of meditative practice of attention she called Deep Listening and Deutsch is a professor of sound design at Alfred University.&nbsp; Springs by Pauline Oliveros/Andrew Deutsch <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7745a843825ad84d7711f195a59eeb2083ea62ac1409974047b24b259d1ec6ef/a1719860210_16.jpg" data-mid="245890332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/7745a843825ad84d7711f195a59eeb2083ea62ac1409974047b24b259d1ec6ef/a1719860210_16.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/Armajani Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:20:45 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Armajani We Are Out of Place Until 1999, my sculpture was participatory in the sense that I built reading rooms, reading gardens, bridges, workers' lounges, etc. Previously, I knew architecture not as a "thing between four walls in a spatial sense, but as a place for resting, sleeping, working." But since then I have enclosed the sculptures so that people cannot enter; they have to walk around the sculpture and view it. Adorno's ironic statement—"it is part of morality not to be at home in one's home"—now guides my work. Outside of these enclosed spaces, we are out of place, as though banished, estranged, expelled, or as Lukács says, experiencing a "transcendental homelessness."Siah Armajani from Notes on Exile <img width="800" height="638" width_o="800" height_o="638" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71e51da8932c0556b2875681436ba606430052820c740117d3fd6f370e0f5809/100621_mia327_0695_800.jpg" data-mid="245605234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/71e51da8932c0556b2875681436ba606430052820c740117d3fd6f370e0f5809/100621_mia327_0695_800.jpg" /> An Exile Dreaming of Saint Adorno, 2009 https://newrural.org/Lattimore Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:50:10 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Lattimore Mary Lattimore: The Potential for Experimentation “I really love to go places to make records. I got an art residency at Headlands, outside of San Francisco, for a couple months to record among the redwoods. That’s where I made Hundreds of Days—barely any cell phone service, very rugged beach, and it was in a national park. I got so much inspiration from just being alone there in a cold, misty Northern California barn.” More <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7fb4346f97a9f6a4cc59d615740e92d7a3c1261d5601afc0e5942a2028414aa/NewRural_MaryLattimore_B03.png" data-mid="245276272" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7fb4346f97a9f6a4cc59d615740e92d7a3c1261d5601afc0e5942a2028414aa/NewRural_MaryLattimore_B03.png" /> https://newrural.org/Listening-Susumu-Yokot Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:43:52 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Listening-Susumu-Yokot Listening A lovely track from Sushumu Yakota, a Japanese artist who was born in 1960 in Tachikawa City—west of Tokyo. He studied economics and graphic design simultaneously, moving to Tokyo where he had a successful design practice in the 1990s all while recording and releasing over thirty albums. This particular track is from the late 1980s.&nbsp; Image 1983-1998 (Skintone Edition) by Susumu Yokota <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8aae4aa0c4db120fcfbbcf7772119fcd35b53375d7e20fff53187fb764dea43e/a0829595192_16.jpg" data-mid="244378962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/8aae4aa0c4db120fcfbbcf7772119fcd35b53375d7e20fff53187fb764dea43e/a0829595192_16.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/and-that-has-to-be-enough Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:54:23 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/and-that-has-to-be-enough And That Has To Be Enough I don’t think that people on our side have any right to assume a good outcome. I think that the real, authentic motive for doing what we’re doing is because it’s right. And that has to be enough. If we have to have some guarantee that it’s going to be effective, sooner or later, we’ll become discouraged and quit.Wendell Berry from an interview concerning protests <img width="2000" height="2667" width_o="2000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01400f810938fd391942a96c9e8412ce6188f7a967b94dfb397fe62aa2eda0e2/new_rural_taylor-county_kentucky_eric-hurtgen.jpg" data-mid="244044072" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01400f810938fd391942a96c9e8412ce6188f7a967b94dfb397fe62aa2eda0e2/new_rural_taylor-county_kentucky_eric-hurtgen.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/SimoneWeil Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:55:03 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/SimoneWeil We Possess No Other Life It would be futile to turn away from the past and think only about the future. It is a dangerous illusion to believe that there is even a possibility. The opposition between the past and the future is absurd. The future brings us nothing, gives us nothing; It is we who, in order to build it, must give it everything, give it our life itself. To give we must possess, and we possess no other life, no other sap, than the treasures inherited from the past and digested, assimilated, recreated by us. Of all the needs of the human soul, there is none more vital than the past.Simone Weil from L'enracinement <img width="1600" height="912" width_o="1600" height_o="912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/853e6fc8bf7ab934c19d773e88105b112564f4f6d1b8979065329ed0c44ed8d9/SimoneWeil.png" data-mid="243284470" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/853e6fc8bf7ab934c19d773e88105b112564f4f6d1b8979065329ed0c44ed8d9/SimoneWeil.png" /> https://newrural.org/No-Longer-a-Place Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:30:42 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/No-Longer-a-Place No Longer a Place But a Condition At the beginning of the twenty-first century, a decentralised urban landscape emerged in which the differences between centre and periphery, city and country and culture and nature are no longer clearly defined. The city no longer seems a place but rather a condition. According to the Italian urban planner Stefano Boeri, “the city has exported its genetic code”. Furthermore, since an urban culture has also settled in rural areas, nature has become, to a large extent, an urban artefact. City, suburb, countryside and nature are all touched by human management. All have become cultural landscapes. The contemporary city no longer stands opposed to nature, but encloses large parts of it.&nbsp;Steven Jacobs from The Photoresque: Images Between City and Countryside <img width="2400" height="1800" width_o="2400" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/848d407c860a597be7bd2c6c90bc7518815c8aa409b52b30daa32fc2dd028bbf/NewRural_CityCountryside.png" data-mid="241863325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/848d407c860a597be7bd2c6c90bc7518815c8aa409b52b30daa32fc2dd028bbf/NewRural_CityCountryside.png" /> https://newrural.org/Listening-Featherbed Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:28:59 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Listening-Featherbed Listening Lovely song off of the recently released album by dulcimer player Sarah Kate Morgan and fiddler Leo Shannon—traditional musicians living and teaching in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Beautifully captured by the fine people at June Appal Records—the non-profit record label of the legendary Appalshop. Featherbed by Sarah Kate Morgan &amp; Leo Shannon <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0f198d0b5282b2e0929132d73b8f982c7826650c886b9748b273ea0472465df/a0429791758_16.jpg" data-mid="241602722" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/a0f198d0b5282b2e0929132d73b8f982c7826650c886b9748b273ea0472465df/a0429791758_16.jpg" />