This section of the DragKing web site has been taken down because it was outdated in many respects. The most recent version dated from August, 2000.

The following articles were written in 1998. My political outlook has changed, developed, evolved since then.

An attempt to draw a political context for the creative output of DragKing, entitled, "Our Culture is not a Commodity"

And more specifically, an attempt to draw a cultural context, entitled, "What is Punk?"

And the inevitable question: "What can a punk band really do?"

DragKing was a group of people who collaborated on music.

All this contextualization is of course multi-layered. It moves from the general to the specific and from the theoretical to the practical. It involves questions like, what is art?, how do we tell good art from bad?, what is the best role for artists in a society based on injustice and oppression?, can art and/or artists survive in a capitalist society without being bought and sold?, is Punk a way out or a deadend?, and what can a punk band really do?

the band known as DragKing in its heyday

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