Yes We Keynes!
...perhaps forgive Quiggin this last sin, though, since, quite frankly, what you and I think matters considerably less than what economists teach and practice. As Keynes himself wrote in the...
Orhan Pamuk and The National on Sadness
...safe, somehow removed. The addictive quality of the National’s music is in its flippant, wallowing, self-conscious sadness. Even their songs about love and comfort and pleasant things take place in...
A Man Alone
...populist who rendered the ordinary person's feelings and aspirations in easily digested metaphors while the culture snobs sneered. But if you listen to a lot of his music or read...
The Crimson Ghost
...of the most instantly recognizable pop culture insignias; it’s been featured on everything from knock-off Ugg Boots and thong underwear to diaper bags. In fact, it is a cultural cliché....
The Collection and the Cloud
...yet the archival functionality of platforms feels like an empty promise. In the culture of surveillance, evidence collection is never-ending, a shadow to every activity. These daily interactions with (and...
Get Off
...always been in my experience closer to the language used to describe music: Things are harsh, ethereal, fuzzy, stark, amplified, severe, ringing. Out of context, if you missed the first...
The Weather
...her children as property, she succeeds in killing her daughter Mary. After which she is recaptured, held, tried, and put on the Henry Lewis, that ship that will return her...
Teju Cole's Afrolicious Playlist
...of African music this past week. We're honored to share one of these in the A/V section here. All text comes from Cole's tweets. To improve your Friday immeasurably, here's...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 6 & 7 & 8)
...is a musical, or at least there is music playing. There are people dancing. They don't sing so maybe that means it is not a musical. That moon is cut...
A Sensor, Darkly
Bryant, who was named the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, is an air force veteran. His memoir originally appeared in Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, which will be published next month by Duke University Press. The essay collection was edited by Lisa Parks and
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Fake Painting
...like successful forgers are closer to these fantastic stereotypes than other kinds of art criminals. That’s absolutely right, and I teach forgery differently than other categories of art crime. Forgergery...
Burial Ground Acknowledgements
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide
Making Black Lives Matter in the Mall of America
...poverty, a culture that glorifies whiteness and vilifies blackness in the media, hospitals and schools that are as separate and unequal as ever, pollution that afflicts black communities far more...
America Dads: Louis CK and Barack Obama
...culture—television evolved the particular kinds of narrative genres that it did by reference to the developing new forms of “normal” social life, a form of social life in which father...
Media is Better Police
...Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Police don’t kill people either, and that’s because, when it comes down to it, police are more guns than people, objects not only...