online archive
5:00PM
JUN 19 2008
Utopia on the roof of the world
From The IPT Beacon, Mark Rigstad (Oakland): Jus Ad Bellum After 9/11: A State of the Art Report. From Cabinet, here's a minor history of giant spheres; the best way to understand Pinoncelli's acts is in Duchamp's terms: as part of the natural history of the readymade;an interview with Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination; an essay on Utopia on the roof of the world: The search for Shambhala; an article on vasectomania, and other cures for sloth: Better living through monkey glands; a look at the origins of cybex space: Gustav Zander’s amazing gymnastic devices; and the ladies seem to like it: Mauve, the color of opportunity. From Cosmos, within a few decades, we might reasonably expect to have extended life to 150 years or more – the first human to live to 1,000 may have already been born. But, does death give meaning to our lives? Finally, it is all about you: Why parental death for adults is the new psychic freedom. Cities for Living: Antimodernist Leon Krier designs urban environments to human scale. If we look at trends of the last 20 years, we have every reason to believe that the modern era of free trade is just getting started. A review of Chester E. Finn Jr.’s Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik. Mark Schmitt on the battle of the budget slideshows. Andrea Walker reviews Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas.
1:00PM
JUN 19 2008
The dangers of too much information
From Metapsychology, a review of The Situated Self by J. T. Ismael; and a review of The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Mark Johnson. A review of Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids by Julie Salamon. An excerpt from Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen's The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World — And How to Reach Them. A review of Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi's Life, Times, and Rise to Power by Marc Sandalow. A review of Artworld Metaphysics by Robert Kraut. The Amazing Adventures of Supergrad: The most sophisticated, accomplished, entitled graduates ever produced by American colleges are heading into the workplace — and employers are falling all over themselves to vie for their talents. When it comes to watching over their tech-obsessed teenagers, parents are learning the dangers of too much information. Lenora Todaro reviews The Size of the World by Joan Silber. From Dissent, Martha Nussbaum on violence on the Left: Nandigram and the Communists of West Bengal; an article on affirmative action on campus; and Michael Walzer on talking to enemies. Militant jihadists are inspired by night dreams, suggests research. Playmates on Politics: Interviews with politically savvy bunnies.
9:00AM
JUN 19 2008
Such brainlessly upbeat language
From The Space Review, here are space policy questions and decisions facing a new administration. The problem with office-speak is that it cloaks the brutal modern workplace in such brainlessly upbeat language. The Bush Family Fantasy: For this West Texan, Rockwell renderings of a presidential childhood are all bull. Norman T. Uphoff is leading an inconspicuous revolution centered on solving the global food crisis. The art in both numbers and letters: Manil Suri is by day a professor of mathematics; by night, he is a novelist, creating narratives set in his native India. A review of The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Mark Johnson. Richard Byrne reviews The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet (and more and more and an interview). From Entertainment Weekly, a special report on diversity in entertainment: Why is TV so white? From Gelf, an article on how apartheid came to California. Europe and Asia have figured it out, so why is the American rail system still so unspeakably awful? GOOD hops aboard a transcontinental train to find out; and wish you were here? Dispatches from places you didn't think had tourists. From The Magazineer, an article on The Virginia Quarterly Review: Lit mag love. First they came for the iPods, then the Europeans snatched up condos in Manhattan — now they’re coming for the companies.
