CHAT ROOM: Activist Microcelebrities
...attention economy. rob: This strays from the paper’s parameters a bit, but the point of engaging in activism can be to escape the constraints of "attention," and its scarcity, into...
Lying Like Cuttlefish
...one another. Against these fantasies, we must learn how to comport ourselves anew, to squirm for a bit in an effort to fight for a life lived in common....
Hillbilly Ethnography
...his readers will not see class through “a racial prism,” but quickly goes on to say: “There is undoubtedly an ethnic component lurking in the background of my story.” Hillbillies,...
The Quiet Life
...efforts of its narrator. He is also named Jesse Ball, though he refers to himself throughout the manuscript as Int., for Interviewer. He has come to a village in Japan’s...
Comfortably Worn: Review of "The Worn Archive"
...often means is this: What hopelessly simple, tidy, boiled-down bit of wisdom/advice/how-to/glimmer of worldview can we offer readers? I'd like to think that's changing, and certainly some magazines are more...
Fake Painting
...may be happening quite a bit more than we think, there might be another 60 prolific forgers we just don’t know about. These incidents are so popular -- nearly every...
Can the Subaltern Vote?
In 2016, the Democratic Party started seeing Muslims as voters, but that’s not necessarily a favor
Disgorge the Cash
...of the 200 largest American companies, and initially a site of bitter criticism of the shareholder revolution—to change its position on business objectives to read “the paramount duty of management...
Critical Moments: Burning with Pride
...hear, but that whole Christian bit has been used against Negro people too long. These people here could loot for ten years and not get back half of the money...
Everything in Its Place
...devoid of baggage, of emotional connection and sentimental attachments, a life committed entirely and passionately to purging. The high point of her existence, and anyone's, is the "tidying festival," a...
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
No Choice but Freedom
...Communism, what they are saying is that markets more effectively produced discipline. It was more successful at imposing patterns of human action and restriction conducive to military and economic production...
Making Again, Making Against
...couldn’t be worth more than two sous—as it is only a bit of gold painted on glass—he happily paid five francs for it. Why, we might wonder, would he give...
The Man Who Saved Prospect Park
...of a man so highly regarded that, like a saint, his passing inspired mythologizing Most of what we know about Gibson comes from John Coleman Adams's 1901 biography William Hamilton...
A Heaven of Hell
...York scene -- patrons and stars of CBGBs between the late Sixties and mid-Eighties, to vastly oversimplify a category -- have come out with their own literature, and enough has...
The World According to Modern Monetary Theory
...of genuine scarcity? What feels like inflation may actually be wage deflation combined with artificial scarcity imposed by monopolists, speculators, and rent seekers. The effects of those ills will not...