online archive
5:00PM
JUN 23 2008
Nihilism and capitalism in the art world
From Critique and Humanism, populist movements are a threat not because they raise the issue of direct democracy, but because they advocate nationalist mobilisation based on xenophobia; is populism identical to the crisis of democracy or rather a symptom of it? Populism vs Democracy: The idea of the referendum as an instrument of the people's will rests on pre-democratic foundations (and a response). Dahlia Lithwick on why the Supreme Court matters next election — seriously. From TNR, Jed Pearl on nihilism and capitalism in the art world: US museums are now fully-owned subsidiaries of the market. A review of Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam, the first Muslim Nobel Scientist by Gordon Fraser. Gus Russo reviews The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by David Kaiser. From Salon, an article on why Obama should pick Hillary Clinton as Veep (and why not). From Plenty, free public transit for all? Bill McKibben explores an alternative congestion pricing plan; and a look at why carbon is the next gold. Anywhere, USA: It seems to me that people in the US are actually craving not change, as we're hearing in current campaign rhetoric, but rather sameness — and more than ever. Jonathan Chait on the Zell Millerization of Joe Lieberman. An interview with Lifeboat International's Philippe Van Nedervelde on safeguarding humanity. Who goes to a Gallagher show in 2008?
1:00PM
JUN 23 2008
How to live with just 100 things
From Knowledge Politics Quarterly, Robert Hassan (Melbourne): Temporalized Democracy and a Future Politics; Michel Bauwens (P2P): The Political Implications of the Peer to Peer Revolution; and an essay on the academic library and the commons. From New English Review, an article on the neglect of geography and its perils; and a look at what some best-sellers have to say about space, place, and territory. From The New York Review of Magazines, an article The Oscars & The Grouches: Film critics, prepare to be judged; last call for The Washington Monthly? 39 years on the Beltway beat; and this article is 1, 689 words long — that's 689 words too many for the web, some say. A longstanding puzzle in Earth’s climate record has just been solved: An abrupt change in how scientists measured temperatures above the ocean, not the climate itself. From The Common Review, a review of books on Woody Allen; and Daniel Born on the memoirs we need. Truly, madly, deeply depressing: Survivors’ memoirs chronicle vivid, day-by-day snapshots of suffering, medication and recovery. From The Village Voice's "Queer Issue", an article on the end of public sex: Why isn't anyone fucking anymore? More and more and more and more on Nudge by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. From n+1, a forum on the politics of fear. An article on how to live with just 100 things.
9:00AM
JUN 23 2008
Financial bubbles are like epidemics
From The Atlantic Monthly, the fruits of the feminist revolution: A review of Get to Work And Get a Life, Before It's Too Late by Linda R. Hirshman; and A Mother’s Work: How Feminism, the Market and Policy Shape Family Life by Neil Gilbert; and infectious exuberance: Financial bubbles are like epidemics—and we should treat them both the same way. From The Nation, Bugliosi v. Bush: The famed prosecutor wants to see the President tried for murder in an American courtroom; Corey Robin reviews books on conservatism; and Dilberts of the World, Unite! Can a populist uprising flourish in a sector traditionally hostile to collective action? From The Philosophers' Magazine, has philosophy responded adequately to big events? Ten leading thinkers respond. From Freakonomics blog, who is the greatest modern-day thinker? From The Economist, a special report on the future of energy. Scott McLemee reviews French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by Francois Cusset. The lessons of Gloucester, or it's about gender, stupid: A "pregnancy pact" among high school sophomores suggests conventional sex education has some explaining to do. Make a mistake in America and you may pay a heavy price for decades. Searching for Ron Paul: Witnessing the tragicomic demise of the Libertarian Party.
