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
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!)
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'.
"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."
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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?
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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
@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
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"
“ 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
“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
"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