Slavoj Žižek on BBC’s The Culture Show. January 28, 2010
For me, if there’s a piece of writing that I care about, I want to have the physical object. There’s a permanence to it, a different kind of permanence than if you find it on a website. You’re bringing together these different voices and pieces, and the way those pieces interact between those two covers is essential.
Republican candidate Carly Fiorina’ “FCINO” ad. I can’t decide if it’s unsettlingly bizarre or just totally creepy. Probably both.
Ultimately we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own books.
— Amazon.com, apparently vying for the “strangest use of the term ‘monopoly’” award.
Mr. Lanchester compares the shift in finance over recent decades to the rise of modernism in the arts. It constituted a “break with common sense, a turn towards self-referentiality and abstraction, and notions that couldn’t be displayed in workaday English.” Finance had become as rotten as modern literary criticism. The bookish Mr. Lanchester senses a “weird familiarity about the current crisis: value, in the realm of finance capital, parallels the elusive nature of meaning in deconstructionism.
Find Heaven by Daniyal Noorani.
A look at Tucker Carlson's political Web site, the Daily Caller →
The Fox News commentator launches his new Web site, the Daily Caller, on Monday. His partner is Neil Patel, a former Dick Cheney aide. His opinion editor is Moira Bagley, who spent 2008 as the Republican National Committee’s press secretary. And his $3 million in funding comes from Wyoming financier Foster Friess, a big-time GOP donor.
But Carlson insists this won’t be a right-wing site…
“There are lies, damn lies, and then there are charts.”
— Ezra Klein.
Why would I have any interest in fixing the bathroom sink?” he said. “I’m in my 30s. If fixing something made me happy, I would have learned how to do it.
A Last Look at Updike and Cheever →
Dick Cavett interviews John Updike and John Cheever in 1981. Absolutely brilliant. I wish this was available for embed.
