Rob

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

An agent’s work has changed since the profession began in the 1800s. “For one thing, agents now edit,” Michael Gorra writes. “In part that comes from the peculiar pressures the publishing industry puts on first novels.” https://t.co/RHum47aMzm

[pHiycrtyl @iycrtylph]

Obsession & Backrooms are interesting developments in film-as-finance—canny investors poaching Gen Z content creators & capitalizing on the middlebrow ("elevated") horror fad to see if there's still any money left to be made in the movies (some, evidently!)

[Millennials Are Killing Capitalism @MAKCapitalism]

The Financialization of the Culture industries & the False Promises of Spotify with @robarcand
https://t.co/Ii4Zd0dLdo

[Oliver Eagleton @Oliver_Eagleton]

It's here: the inaugural issue of @phenomenalworld, on American Power in the age of Trump, has just been published online.

Featuring essays on Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, China and the Gulf, plus Tim Barker's sweeping history of 'declinisms'.

[Rob @robarcand]

some days you're regular, some days you're jean baudrillard moved to tears by the new york marathon

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

A word in memory and honor of Sonny Rollins, who was so powerful that, playing alone, he was a band; he contained multitudes: 
https://t.co/EMPBAbbSUh

[Strange Matters @strange_matters]

"Sonic Youth had just opened a recording studio in Tribeca. They...were thinking about starting a magazine that would be a hybrid of the Beastie Boys’ Grand Royal and @thebafflermag."

https://t.co/7hUac7AVNf

[David S Wallace @JustJokes247]

I wrote about art and learning—and about The Pitt. Today “didactic” art is mostly a byword for “heavy-handed,” but it has a long cultural history. Why are we so afraid of a lesson?

https://t.co/gUGLacmlbc

[Rob @robarcand]

“I probably haven’t written a line of code for more than eighteen months. I don’t think I’ll ever write a program again” https://t.co/6J7KfOxwmq

[James Vincent @jjvincent]

an absolutely riveting essay — ostensibly about Karp's book, but really about what karp's book *doesn't* contain: i.e., how you create a techno-nationalist elite, with the historical example of the antebellum US https://t.co/3cltO8z94A

[Gavin Mueller @gavinmuellerphd]

Also because that’s what they’re for

[Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth]

@BigMeanInternet i talked to a c plus c team last week who is working on something...probably a somewhat different take and audience than mine would be. also here are some of the geographers working on this rn if anyone is interested

[Endnotes @endnotesjournal]

Afterword to the French Edition of The Future of Revolution by Jasper Bernes

https://t.co/dhq0Hrk2fZ

[Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb]

In today's @nytimes, I went deep on yuppies -- the young professionals who are now so ubiquitous that we've ceased to notice them.

[Matt Huber @Matthuber78]

This is a great corrective!

"The petrodollar story gets cause & effect exactly backwards. Oil producers priced barrels & profits in $ in the 1970s bc an infrastructure of global $ banking, what we now call the eurodollar system, was already in place - not in NYC, but in London"

[Rob @robarcand]

“ If LLMs hadn't been invented, we might have been able to slumber on blissfully, content with the science of Saussure or Jakobson. But given the existence of LLMs, the limitations of structuralism appear in a new light” https://t.co/wUWRlsLi6W

[n+1 @nplusonemag]

“People said that he was an avid philologist, and had a giant file devoted to the word ‘dust,’ and believed that it was imperative to learn Anglo-Saxon.” From Issue 11: Emily Witt on J. H. Prynne. https://t.co/iObSfCrPNM

[Zito @_Zeets]

This report about the surveillance in Madison Square Garden is insane

[Rob @robarcand]

"In America today, age is the modality in which class is lived—­with apologies to the late, great cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who said the same thing about race" https://t.co/cZQH9V0XmX

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

Took 33 years for these guys to be vindicated. #BreakUpTicketmaster