February 2010
January 2010
WatchKate Greenstreet’s “The Giant”
(via Ron Silliman)
Love and Rockets - So Alive
I don’t know...
Jürgen Habermas has a Twitter →
…I cannot explain how happy this makes me. Tyler Cowan from Marginal Revolution goes a way towards explaining why this is so absurd and wonderful. I’m not sure I could without writing a full fucking essay.
(Of course, it might not be him. It probably isn;'t, in fact. But I’m, for the moment, going to pretend it is. Despite the fact that he apparently knows how to use a URL...
Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger | The Onion -... →
ellygreenwood:bowfolk:isabelthespy:(via ekswitaj)
CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. “He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers,”...
"...All is inverted. Here it is the Accident which... →
— Jean Baudrillard, “Ballard’s Crash”
Howard Zinn - Artists in a Time of War, pt. 2: The...
The Impulse Toward Vengence
…The theories of self-regulating markets that guaranteed no collapse turned out to be profoundly flawed - as most intelligent conservatives (Posner, Bartlett, et al.) have now observed. And the oh-so-clever mechanisms the bankers invented to give themselves more and more and more turned out - surprise! - to be mathematically flawed. And those of us who’d saved for retirement, paid...
The Recession Generation →
ledgergermane:
…The situation could get even uglier if, as many predict, a depressed post-crisis landscape forces Americans to let go of the mythology of upward mobility. As Brookings fellows Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins point out in their new book, Creating an Opportunity Society, this myth hasn’t been true for some time: by international standards, intergenerational social mobility in...
r/K selection theory - Wikipedia, the free... →
Jamais Casico, on Twitter:
@cascio In a world of diverse, distributed media, simple and replicable strategies will win out over complex and nuanced ones. r beats K…http://tr.im/LGWj in unstable environments, fecundity and rapid replication beats long maturation and complexity.
From the article:
r-selection (unstable environments)
In unstable or unpredictable environments,...
The Blogger as German Romantic
…The Kantian, French and industrial revolutions convinced Coleridge that no synthesis was any longer possible. Mainly as far as poetry was concerned. Autobiography, at best, was the only way of apprehending the new reality. Finding coherence in one’s journey should from now on be one’s only ambition. Thus Coleridge’s own poetic adventure was to break brutally in two. As he fled to Germany...
6:30 p.m.: Twenty-Year-Old texts to say she gets... →
NY Mag - The Poet Dating His Much-Younger Former Student:
Once a week, Daily Intel looks behind doors left slightly ajar. The Poet Dating His Much-Younger Former Student: male, 31, Manhattan, straight, in an open long-distance relationship…
Blank Generation, pt. II
…Lisa Kahn recently showed that the labor-market consequences of graduating from college in a bad economy have large, negative and persistent effects on wages. Lifetime earnings are substantially lower than they would have been if the graduate had entered the jobs market in good times. Furthermore, cohorts who graduate in worse national economies tend to end up in lower-level occupations.
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Coming & Crying: real stories about sex from the... →
Meaghan and Melissa (or, “we”) met because of the internet and writing, and writing about sex (and blogging about writing about sex). Almost since then, we’ve been talking about how we need to do a book like this: a collection of stories (and photographs) from the messy, awkward, hilarious, painful, and ultimately true side of sex…
…The lack of good storytelling...
Dear New Orleans,
I love you. I love you so...
unsustainable2-deactivated20111 asked: I'm about to go do laundry on a Saturday night, so don't feel so bad about being home and hanging out with Tumblr for fun. It could be worse!
Let's see. Question. How about Janeane? What the hell happened to her? Did getting skinny make her go crazy? She used to be funny and witty and weird ... but I don't find her amusing anymore. Do you? What other female...
Let's see. Question. How about Janeane? What the hell happened to her? Did getting skinny make her go crazy? She used to be funny and witty and weird ... but I don't find her amusing anymore. Do you? What other female...
Ask Me Anything →
I recognize that there is something at least slightly narcissistic about soliciting questions from ones readers…but, let’s be honest here: I’m home, alone, on a Saturday night and I have little better to do.
“…Listen, young people…I understand narcissism, but at least I have the decency to hate myself.”
— Janeane Garofalo
…Preach, sister.
A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter →
Felix Salmon:
A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter is an artwork by Caleb Larsen, currently for sale on eBay. If it hasn’t sold in the next couple of days — the minimum bid is $2,500 — it will go back on eBay. On the other hand, if it does sell, it will still go back on eBay. That’s what it does, as clearly explained in the legal contract accompanying the work:
Artist has created a work of art...
On "Fugitive Texts" and Forgetting
…We are archivists, all of us.
But must everything be permanent?
Must we insist that every cultural object be subjected to the archive?
What about the fine art of disappearance? Whether for aesthetic reasons, marketing tactics, or sheer perversity, there’s a long history of producing cultural artifacts that consume themselves, fade into ruin, or simply disappear. It might be a limited...
unsustainable:
Neko Case — “Middle Cyclone”
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alexbalk:
It just feels somehow appropriate...
The "Hymn to Money"
ericmortensen:
“Free trade stops wars. And that’s it. Free trade stops wars, and we figure out a way to fix the rest. One world, one peace. I’m sure I’ve seen that on a sign somewhere.”
—Toby Ziegler
I defer to Zizek in situations like this, from his recent First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (that link, by the way, goes to a free version available on scribd):
While, in a market economy, I remain...
The Extent of Lifestyle Branding
Despite this trend, the nation-state isn’t going away. It still plays a role in the growing global ecosystem, and nothing has risen to displace it (global ideological homogeneity of nation-state governance dictates this). It will merely adapt to the evolving niche it is relegated to. So, what does the nation-state look like in its residual and adapted form?…
…Simply, the...
