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Mainstream offerings are dominated by sensationalist non-fiction, formulaic and #BookTok-approved YA, and an endless parade of self-help. The few compelling books still being published for mainstream audiences occupy niche spaces, without the broad public engagement they once enjoyed. If intellectuals have always complained about the fragmentation... See more
Default Friend • No, Culture is Not Stuck
On Tyranny
“In the summer of 2008, when I was working as a beleaguered junior editor at a news magazine, I used to distract myself by visiting the Strand Bookstore, near Union Square in Manhattan, and rescuing one yellowing, waterlogged book from the dollar carts outside. There was a bizarre urgency to these missions for me—I kept imagining the fate of the
... See moreWe see curiosity theater all around.
Audience members asking questions at panels that are actually mini-speeches. People at dinner name-dropping obscure books in conversation but never engaging with their core arguments. Folks on social media starting ‘learning projects’ and abandoning them after a week.
Then there’s curation theater.
Posting endless... See more
Audience members asking questions at panels that are actually mini-speeches. People at dinner name-dropping obscure books in conversation but never engaging with their core arguments. Folks on social media starting ‘learning projects’ and abandoning them after a week.
Then there’s curation theater.
Posting endless... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
Born in 1930, Edna O’Brien was raised in a strict Catholic household. As a young girl, she read such writers as Tolstoy, Thackeray, and James Joyce while stifled in the strict Catholic boarding school she felt imprisoned by.
In 1950, having studied at night at a pharmaceutical college and worked in a Dublin pharmacy... See more
instagram.comfor my @NewYorker column this week, I wrote about Byung-Chul Han, the internet's new favorite philosopher, the Sartre of looking at your phone a lot, author of the paperback manifesto your favorite artist / designer / architect is carrying in their pocket https://t.co/vJAgdEpq3H
Kyle Chaykax.comAlexis Barber Substack (https://substack.com/@alexisbarber)
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