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Dreams Incorporated - The Baffler
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Living the delayed life with Amway. HAT IS YOUR DREAM? Demanded a booming voice. The ballroom went dark and the audience settled in for a fifteen minute video catalogue of the stuff dreams are made of: a blur of luxury cars, sprawling mansions, frolicking children, pristine beaches, hot-dogging jet-skiers, private helipads, and zooming jets all set to caffeinated, John-Teshy instrumental music. The voice returned: It’s about. A shot of a palatial house.) It’s about. We could do it! The Best Business Oppo...
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Is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art. We publish four print issues annually, as well as online content. Every day of the cursed workweek. Our regular subjects include Silicon Valley snake-oil, the deadening weight of consumer capitalism, our faithless media, and the redemptive promise of people claiming control of their own lives. Submit your own dyspeptic work for our consideration over here. July 21, 2014.
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No. 27 - The Baffler
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No 27 ~ Venus in Furs BUY ISSUE. Look, it’s our first-ever fashion issue! But the work arrayed under the slightly furtive label, “Venus in Furs,” amounts to nothing like the cosmetics kits of upmarket, style-addled journalism. We’re mindful, instead, that the fashion industry’s. Main proposition—confusing clothing with personal worth—has been a longstanding affront to women, not to mention a handy insignia for encoding and regulating the rules of social class. Herein we also give you a manifesto. People ...
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Seen Dave? - The Baffler
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Avid McLimans has contributed significant art to these pages over the past few years, most recently the cover of the previous issue,. He died this year on the first day of spring. However, David was never one to express anger, at least visually. Rather, he employed bemusement, creating art that mattered, inviting the viewer to enter into an understanding through the deft application of symbolism, texture, and color, along with an exquisite sense of form and composition. 8220;Trickle Down”.
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The Dads of Tech - The Baffler
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The Dads of Tech. He master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” Audre Lorde famously said, but let Clay Shirky mansplain. It “always struck me as a strange observation—even the metaphor isn’t true,” the tech consultant and bestselling author said at the. Editing career, he didn’t need fact-checkers to determine whether the story was true. He then announced with a wink that it was “maybe a little true.” Heh. Shirky studied fine art in school, worked as a lighting designer for theater and dan...
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The Taming of Tech Criticism - The Baffler
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The Taming of Tech Criticism. The Glass Cage: Automation and Us. By Nicholas Carr, W. W. Norton, $26.95. Hat does it mean to be a technology critic in today’s America? And what can technology criticism accomplish? Why all the political diffidence? Why, then, aspire to practice any kind of technology criticism at all? Nicholas Carr, one of America’s foremost technology critics, is far from acknowledging defeat of any sort—in fact, he betrays no doubts whatsoever about the relevance and utility...Carr argu...
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Cyborg Soothsayers of the High-Tech Hogwash Emporia - The Baffler
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Cyborg Soothsayers of the High-Tech Hogwash Emporia. In Amsterdam with the Singularity. Ne cool morning last fall I followed a canal from my hostel in Amsterdam to the chic DeLaMar Theater. The theater was once a Big Data archive, a custodian of the records of a Nazi labor program that sent Dutch civilians to toil in German fields and factories, and was firebombed by underground resistors in 1945. Five suspects were executed for that crime against quantification, now long forgotten. Such heady visions ma...
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Jacob Silverman - The Baffler
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Jacob Silverman’s book,. 65279;Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection. 65279;, is out now. Spoiling for the Green Party. August 17, 2016. Issue No. 31. Sci-Hub vs. the Scarcity-Mongers. April 1, 2016. The Rest Is Advertising. Issue No. 30. Issue No. 29. The Novel in Analog: Joshua Cohen’s. July 22, 2015. Metrics All the Way Down. July 8, 2015. The Permanent War on Terror: Only As Old As It Fee. July 1, 2015. Not the People’s Uber. June 24, 2015. June 17, 2015. June 10, 2015.
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Kim Stanley Robinson - The Baffler
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Now here’s a tale to buoy you through our time of sinking expectations. The Baffler Foundation Inc. is a tax-exempt organization incorporated “to promote art, science, and education by publishing a literary magazine.” We employ a core staff. Of editors, designers, and researchers to work in subject areas that have been largely abandoned by universities, foundations, business, and government. Together we produce not only. In print and digital editions, but also books. And symposia, lectures, and events.
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