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brianlucid: The National Endowment for the Arts released a Research Note on Artists in the Workforce today that contains industry-specific, regional, and demographic data on the 2.1 million artists working in the U.S. There is plenty of interesting data inside, starting with the fact that designers by far hold the highest percentage (39%) of all…
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Robert Reich: The Rebirth of Social Darwinism
Robert Reich: The Rebirth of Social Darwinism Darwin is okay in the board room, but not the class room? robertreich: What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? I’ve been listening to Republican candidates in an effort to discern an overall philosophy, a broadly-shared vision, an ideal picture of America. They say they want…
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austinkleon: Al Jaffee’s Iconic MAD Fold-Ins: The Definitive Collection, 1964-2010 | Brain Pickings Had no clue there was a collection of Jaffee’s Fold-Ins out! This interview is great: When I met Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart and the writers who work for them, all of them were so nice to me primarily because they had…
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Is She or Isn’t She?
lareviewofbooks: JOHN CLUTE on Margaret Atwood and the S and F words. Elevator Girl House F1 © Miwa Yanagi 1997 Margaret AtwoodIn Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination New York: Doubleday/Nan A Talese, 2011. 255 pp. There are a few problems here, which may take a few minutes to sort through before we can get…
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Barthes vehemently opposes the view that authors consciously create masterpieces. He maintains that authors such as Racine and Balzac often reproduce emotional patterns about which they have no conscious knowledge. He opposes the view that authors should be interpreted in terms of what they think they’re doing. Their biographies have no more relevance to what…
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According to this reading of myth, a myth occurs only if someone is a true believer who consumes the myth innocently. This is why, for certain later writers, a postmodern ‘ironic’ reading, which recognises and plays with the constructedness of myths, is deemed subversive. It is also why ironic uses of stereotypes are sometimes differentiated…
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David Chalmers, however, argues that materialist reductionism of the Churchlands’ type throws out too much, and cannot deal with the fact that humans enjoy sunsets. Chalmers agrees with Thomas Nagel that there is something that it feels like to be a bat, or a human, but there may be nothing that it is like to…
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Lessig Blog, v2: Dear Candidate for Congress …
Lessig Blog, v2: Dear Candidate for Congress … lessig: Thanks for your call, which I am sorry I was not able to accept. But after many too many contributions to candidates for Congress, I have adopted an absolute rule: I will not consider making a contribution to your campaign for Congress unless you commit absolutely…
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Secret panel can put Americans on kill list’ | Reuters
Secret panel can put Americans on kill list’ | Reuters wilwheaton: wilwheaton: American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. There is no public record of the operations or decisions of…
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Goldman Sachs, the global investment bank and financial services firm, announced Friday morning that it is running for president of the United States. The announcement was made at a farm near Waterloo, Iowa, by the musician Ted Nugent, who was hired to speak for the candidate. “We love oil and God and gasoline!” shouted Mr.…