New Yorker magazine alert thread

not that this is the right handle by which to pick up something so serious, but . . . I have to say that the role of Miltonic "greatness" in Berman's predatory schtick was really particularly enraging to me- as an early modern academic, I have to say that the kind of parental superego of Miltonic authority is the most irritating part of Milton studies, the way that the rhetorical construction of Milton's lone visionary genius as the yardstick of all human achievement is just rife in the field as a disavowed-yet-obvious means by which Milton critics in turn pump up their own greatness as scholars/humans (and by extension flatter their readers as a "fit but few" exception to the herd who don't bask in the greatness), and to see this kind of debased variant of that cultish critical apparatus used as a tool to scare and intimidate (let alone molest) high school kids is just stomach-turning. Ugh ugh ugh x infinity.

― the tune was space, Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:12 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

curious why these psychos are drawn to milton

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/sonali-deraniyagala-wave-review-teju-cole.html
― s.clover, Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:54 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

reading this book rn; awful story

One of Berman’s lists tracked the thousand greatest people who had ever lived, and, Berman confided, he himself had recently reached No. 27, surpassing Herman Melville.

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, April 2, 2013 4:06 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

i like the "recently," like what happened that in his head he was like "nailed it"

that was amazing. like he thinks he's being humble not putting himself at the top

i love david carr so much in that clip

I immediately searched on line for a downloadable version of Berman's novel. No luck.

http://i.imgur.com/azKsgZf.jpg

lunatic in repose. gonna pull out all the stops to find a copy of his novel.

(btw it still being 60/yr for a subscrip is killing me, is it really worth that price rn?)

He looks like a Godard character.

hey I got an idea for that pointer

i wonder who berman roots for in milton. you've got your lovable scoundrel satan and evil manipulative stalin-like god, i could see it going either way.

(btw it still being 60/yr for a subscrip is killing me, is it really worth that price rn?)

― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, April 2, 2013 5:30 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's 48 issues. gd is it worth it

what ugly hands!

word @ s1ocki, nyer subscription is easily the best thing i spend money on. & i just bought a really nice loaf of onion bread.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/sonali-deraniyagala-wave-review-teju-cole.html
― s.clover, Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:54 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

reading this book rn; awful story

― cozen, Tuesday, April 2, 2013 5:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorta wanna read this, though contending w/feelings of self-disgust at it being like evocatively rendered grief writing. how is it?

lol veg

boy's school teacher cult thing as old as the hills. ancient greece to thread. not that abuse is good obviously. but its typical. especially in previous eras.

"the didge" !

One of Berman’s lists tracked the thousand greatest people who had ever lived, and, Berman confided, he himself had recently reached No. 27, surpassing Herman Melville.

Wonder if Stanley Fish made the list.

"the didge" !

― k3vin k., Tuesday, April 2, 2013 6:53 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8TRoMSG-5I

lol

Won't download in the background my ass, I just cleared 2 gigs of these things offa my iPad.

they do if you elect to receive background downloads (impractical if you use wifi at work or phone tethering or w/e). if you manually kick off a download and close the app, i think it stops.

after a few minutes

vice piece kinda seemed like it was trying to indite them with banality

I don't even wanna read that one

boy's school teacher cult thing as old as the hills. ancient greece to thread. not that abuse is good obviously. but its typical. especially in previous eras.

otm. no coincidence this horace mann creep's heyday was during the late 60s & 70s, the age of cult leaders, gurus and "sexual permissiveness"

All this Vice synergy ... disconcerting. First Rodman goes to North Korea. Then there's a huge New Yorker piece, in advance of an HBO launch. And they were just profiled on NPR this morning, all with the same sort of formula of awed established names paying lip service to spunky edgy upstart as journalist for the 21st century. Like capturing the attention of the 18-24 male demo is something to be proud of.

vice has been grinding for a decade now to be the next mtv, their aspiration is big and ugly and now they have the clout of mtv and face time with a reclusive dictator. it's 15 minutes time. i hold out hope to have schadenfreude when the hbo show tanks but i dunno.

boy's school teacher cult thing as old as the hills. ancient greece to thread. not that abuse is good obviously. but its typical. especially in previous eras.

otm. no coincidence this horace mann creep's heyday was during the late 60s & 70s, the age of cult leaders, gurus and "sexual permissiveness"

― screen scraper (m coleman), Friday, April 5, 2013 5:47 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i forget who it was now but they quoted somebody who actually tried to excuse the abuse basically on these grounds: it's been commonplace for centuries and the era in question facilitated such "sexual experimentation" or however he or she chose to put it. i almost threw up

btw i don't even know what vice is, am i bad at the internet

its a canadian ad agency

there is a thing in the nyer about them, you can learn

xp vice is a media/advertising company that started as a free canada zine, moved to NYC and became the online/paper voice of hipster nihilism, diversified to music about five years ago (they're noisey if you've seen those concert/interview links on youtube). sort of the Spy of 2003 and in many ways teed up buzzfeed. They have a new "journalism" show coming on HBO this weekend. They're big on gonzo YOU ARE THERE moments and presenting white/western privilege and perspective to be "cool".

they also invented ironic racism

forksapedia

don't know about diversifying to music 5 years ago...they've had a label and been doing shows and whatnot since the early 00s.

i knew they were doing shows as a marketing thing but didn't notice the label until late 00's

vice put out the lol streets first album in america iirc

right you are, as an imprint. the successful push to internet is when i started paying closer attention to them as a music entity.... though i suppose they were the cats doing 77 boadrums back in the day. /critic forgetfulness

yeah i noticed them as a label when they did the US release of Seadrum/House of Sun (2004?) and came closest to having affection for them when they helped with Boadrum.

i remember about a dozen homunculus dudes skittering about at that show with animal masks and hand held cameras; i think that was vice

it was one of the best live things ever on a lot of levels

vice is p troubling in a lot of ways obviously but when comparing them to mtv or mens/lad mags they're the lesser of several evils imo

man, i dunno about that
http://pastehtml.com/view/c68p9j892.html

btw i don't even know what vice is, am i bad at the internet

You'd have known about it if you were on ILX ca. 2004-06.

Five years ago, we did a two-page spread on how Project USA’s Craig Nelson was brave enough to take on America’s seriously damaged immigration policies. (We are immigrants ourselves and were therefore not the least bit afraid of being blackballed as “anti-immigrant.”) The responses were hysterical. Formerly loyal readers called for boycotts. They annoyed our advertisers with silly rhetoric and called us racists. Needless to say, we were shocked. Like Toby Young in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People or Peter Brimelow in Alien Nation, we were new immigrants who couldn’t understand why Americans were so determined to favor PC posturing over simple facts. Immigration is out of hand, and it’s only going to get worse. Where were the young conservatives to come to our defense? Was the dumb community in control of the entire country?

Two years later, we ran an article on an artist who painted women with incredibly large rear ends. Gay men and straight women found the depictions revolting. Straight men loved it. In the article, the writer went so far as to blame the heavy concentration of gays in the magazine world for brainwashing women into thinking men don’t want them to be at least a little bit porky. He talked about how men bought more hair products than women last year and how heavy grooming like hair dying, chest waxing, and even eyebrow plucking have become de rigueur for straight men. He claimed the gay community had “recreated straights in their own image.” Predictably, our readers were outraged. But something was different this time. On our Web site’s message boards, advocates of the Right started to appear. For every three people who called the article homophobic, there was at least one saying, “What about the part where it’s true? Isn’t that worth something?”—a comment that beautifully sums up the difference between liberals (equality first, truth last) and conservatives (truth first, everything else second).

point taken but micinnes in 2013 =! vice in 2013

god that guy is such a POS

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I think Vice has gotten more canny about not being so open about their immensely shitty mission, lowest common denominator trolling and purely capitalist motives but not much has changed in their coverage or approach. i find the website painful these days, the Girls schtick with dunham trying to write for blogs about her heroin use and fucking teenagers is clearly lifted from vice culture. they do still occasionally eke out some legit journalism so i'll try the show but they're just so often repugnant

er cocaine use, whatevs