A depressing take
Month: April 2018
21 Books You Don’t Have to Read | GQ
Language Log » On beyond the (International Phonetic) Alphabet
Palantir Knows Everything About You
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/
An intelligence platform designed for the global War on Terror was weaponized against ordinary Americans at home.
What’s New in Translation: April 2018 – Asymptote Blog
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2018/04/09/whats-new-in-translation-april-2018/
Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau is not new to English speaking readers: his Prix Goncourt-winning novel Texaco and his Creole Folktales are among the most important works of the créolité movement and French post-colonial literature.
18th-century British postal hacks
Barbara Ehrenreich: Why I’m Giving Up on Preventative Care | Literary Hub
Why I Always Wear Black Eyeshadow
Why Chinese Filmgoers Don’t Buy Hollywood’s Values Anymore
Why Is Caring About Fashion Considered Unserious? | Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/why-is-caring-about-fashion-considered-unserious/
Fashion naysayers are often people who are “uncomfortable with taking full responsibility for their own looks,” Anne Hollander tells us, “who either fear the purely visual demands of social life—‘appearance’ or ‘appearances’—or don’t trust the operation of their own taste,” which means in the end that they “feel threatened and manipulated by fashion.”