Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
Steve Huffman, the thirty-three-year-old co-founder and C.E.O. of Reddit, which is valued at six hundred million dollars, was nearsighted until November, 2015, when he arranged to have laser eye surge
Trumpism and the Davos Man
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On Putting Things Off
Vol. 37 No. 17 · 10 September 2015 On Putting Things Off Robert Hanks Share on Facebook Email 1500 words Listen to this piece read bythe author W hen I hear other people talking about procrastinatio
The Great A.I. Awakening
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Debate: The "Latin Empire" should strike back
Opinion, ideas, initiatives The “Latin Empire” should strike back Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has revived the idea of a union of Southern European countries, a proposal first launched by anoth
The Soviet Union collapsed overnight. Don’t assume western democracy will last for ever | Paul Mason
Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in October, 2016.Photograph: Getty Images B elow the medieval citadel in Kazan, two vast frozen rivers turn the landscape white. On a Saturday afternoon there a
This Neural Network Dreams In Cities
Now imagine if an aerial image of New York could camouflage itself as one from Hong Kong, or Milan. That’s just one of the things Invisible Cities , a new project from Italy’s Opendot (which includes
Is the modern art world complete bullshit?
Arts+Culture Q+A ‘Art Fair’ is a film made by Talk Hole that looks at the deathly competitiveness of New York’s art scene and how no-one’s really saying anything, are they? 1 December 2016 Text Thomas
Blame the identity apostles – they led us down this path to populism | Simon Jenkins
I have no tribe. I have no comfort blanket, no default button that enables me to join the prevailing hysteria and cry in unison, “Of course, it’s all the fault of X.” Meanwhile we everywhere see the f
Why Are Americans So Anxious?
Nonfiction A scene from “High Anxiety” (1977), with Mel Brooks and Madeline Kahn. Credit... 20th Century Fox Amazon Apple Books Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Bookshop Indiebound When you purchase a
The Holy Southern Empire: a proposal for Southern European anarcho-papism | through europe
The Holy Southern Empire: a proposal for Southern European anarcho-papism Written by Federico Campagna, 16.09.2013 Cura hominum potuit tantam componere Romam, quantam non potuit solvere cura deum. Hildebertus, Carmina Minora , no.36 Beyond the Latin Empire A few months ago, the Italian philosopher…
Catholicism As Radical Atheism | through europe
Catholicism As Radical Atheism Written by Federico Campagna, 24.03.2014 Steering clear of absolutist atheism My radically atheist attack against normative abstractions, however, was for the great part dissimilar from traditional atheism. While traditional atheism locates its critique on an…
The Fate of Reading in a Multimedia Age - Los Angeles Review of Books
IN MID-OCTOBER, the Nobel Committee for Literature awarded the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan, “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” The announcement came sho
The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins
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Neoliberalism’s epic fail: The reaction to Hillary Clinton’s loss exposed the impotent elitism of liberalism
By the time last week’s presidential election was finally called for Donald Trump during the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the initial disbelief felt by the millions of Americans who had been assure
LRB · Malcolm Bull · Great Again: America’s Heidegger
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How to Be Ourselves
W hen the American journal n+1 was launched in 2004, an editorial in the first number lamented the state of contemporary culture. We are living, it said, at ‘a time when serious writing about cultur
Swat Team: The media’s extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform
A ll politicians love to complain about the press. They complain for good reasons and bad. They cry over frivolous slights and legitimate inquiries alike. They
Unconvinced by Ken Loach’s benefits story? That says more about Britain than the film does
I, Daniel Blake , Ken Loach’s new film, has kicked off a row between the director and The Sunday Times ’ film critic, Camilla Long. Published on Sunday, the review – which called the film a “povvo saf
We Are Close to Our Goal, But Not There Yet!
Karl Marx famously argued that alienation of labour (our most basic activity) meant that we felt human only during ‘animal functions’ such as eating and drinking. Of course, Marx had never met Rob Rhi
Neoliberalism has had its day. So what happens next? | Martin Jacques
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The End of Food
Tasters have compared Soylent to Cream of Wheat and “my grandpa’s Metamucil.” Photograph by Henry Hargreaves In December of 2012, three young men were living in a claustrophobic apartment in San Franc
95,000 Words, Many of Them Ominous, From Donald Trump’s Tongue
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Review: ‘The Selfishness of Others,’ or I’m O.K. — You’re a Narcissist
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Slow Wars
A film by Tsai Ming-liang can feel like a test. More specifically, a staring contest. How long can you look? Somewhere into the eleven-minute sequence in Stray Dog s (2013), where the protagonist hugs
Sadomodernism
In almost every film Michael Haneke has made, an animal dies on-screen. The protagonists of The Seventh Continent (1989), his first feature, smash the tank of their family goldfish, which we watch wri
Why Are There So Few Personal Essays By Black Women?
Writing a personal essay can be a full-body activity, replete with tremors and tears and physical aches. Recollection is strenuous. Recreating a scene can be downright exhausting. In those instances,
How the Rolling Stones, a Band Obsessed With Black Musicians, Helped Make Rock a White Genre
The Rolling Stones, 1963. Monitor Picture Library/Photoshot/Getty Images This article is adapted from Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination . In January of 1973—the same month
Beware the vibrant, emerging, misleading language of gentrification
I have started a list in the back of a notebook, a short dictionary of the language of gentrification. It began with the word “decanted”. Typically we decant wine from a bottle into a carafe in order
Normal People
If there is a prize for best title of the year, this book surely deserves it. Alexei Yurchak, a Russian-born, US-trained anthropologist, has written an interesting and provocative book about the way y
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The bonfire of Noam Chomsky: Journalist Tom Wolfe targets the acclaimed linguist
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A Declaration of the Dignity Image
American Artist, A Refusal (2015), Online performance, Ongoing In art that defines itself by what it withholds from public view lies the challenge for us to do the same AN image that is not shared pub
The Tony Blair 'selfie' Photo Op will have a place in history
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the Wood between Worlds: The Berenstein Bears: We Are Living in Our Own Parallel Universe
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This Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America’s 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services. For more than a decade, professional snoops have bee
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit - The Baffler
A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false pro
This man seems to die in every terrorist attack. But he's very much alive.
If you’ve clicked on any articles about the victims of recent terror attacks, you might have seen a photo of the man above. Following the deadly terrorist attack at Atatürk airport in Istanbul, Turkey
LRB · Owen Hatherley · One Click at a Time
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