Alexander Billet is a writer and critic based in Los Angeles. He is the author of Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis (2022, second edition forthcoming in 2026), and has contributed to Los Angeles Review of Books, Salvage, Jacobin, Protean, and other outlets. Read more of his work on his website. He is also intermittently active on Instagram and Bluesky.
Alexander Billet
Articles
Sound Epistemology
Alexander Billet listens to Damon Krukowski’s “Why Sound Matters.”
The Last Avant-Garde
Alexander Billet reviews Dominique Routhier’s “With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation.”
Through the Wreckage: On Joe Molloy’s “Acid Detroit”
Alexander Billet reviews Joe Molloy’s “Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music.”
Giving Up the Ghost: On the Legacy of Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher’s final lectures offer a bracing anatomy of neoliberal capitalism and glimmers of its utopian end.
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