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What's Next For Literary Studies? →
Stanley Fish surveys offerings at next week’s MLA convention:
Once again, as in the early theory days, a new language is confidently and prophetically spoken by those in the know, while those who are not are made to feel ignorant, passed by, left behind, old. If you see a session on “Digital Humanities versus New Media” and you’re not quite sure what either term means you might think you have wandered into the wrong convention. When the notes explaining the purpose of a session on “Digital Material” include the question “Is there gravity in digital worlds?”, you might be excused for wondering whether you have become a character in a science fiction movie. And when a session’s title is “Digital Literary Studies: When Will it End?”, you might find yourself muttering, “Not soon enough.”
(Source: The New York Times)
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Because Paul Krugman Didn't Keep His Calm :: Reasons to <3 N.Y. 2011 from New York Magazine →
“The most remarkable attribute Paul Krugman has brought to the New York Times is rudeness. The social niceties that accompany his exalted position are utterly lost on him. He does not seek out the company of famous politicians and cannot be courted with flattery or access. He understands that you can’t arrive at truth without explaining why mistaken beliefs are wrong.”
1000x yes.
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This is going to be the most fun election of my entire life.
Also, that Times caption: best dangling modifier ever? Unless Newt’s speeches and interviews are capable of electromagnetic pulses; then we really are doomed.
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Farhad Manjoo: The NYT Paywall works on me →
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Anyone who’s ever handled the NYT Sunday knows it is an awesome thing. It’s unbelievable that any institution can produce so much content at all, let alone one that can produce something that is so frequently top-notch (even if two-thirds of it is filled with disquisitions on the lives of wealthy people with first-world problems; hey, I’ve got first-world problems too!). The Sunday paper deals in volume, and as a consequence it’s just not the kind of thing that’s possible to appreciate on the Web or really in any digital form. It works only on paper, and once paper is gone, I imagine it will cease to exist — Sunday’s content will be spread out over the week or the month, SEO’d and slimmed-down.
Still, of course, Sunday’s expensive — $7.50 a week is more than most monthly magazines — especially when you consider that you’ll very likely miss it most Sundays, or have just enough time to skim the news, the book reviews, and the magazine. And probably if there’s a magazine article you really want to read you’ll get online and Instapaper it so you can spread it out over the week, and read it in the dark when you can’t sleep.
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[h/t Fresh Air]
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Wall St on #OWS →
A few outspoken members of the financial industry have broken ranks with their more skeptical brethren to say they understand a bit of the outrage of the Occupy Wall Street crowd.
“When I tell people I went down to research the protests, they’re shocked, they literally laugh,” said Michael Mayo, a veteran bank analyst at Crédit Agricole Securities. “It’s just not a location they frequent.”
Citigroup’s chief executive, Vikram S. Pandit, even said he would be happy to talk with the protesters any time they wanted to drop by. Mr. Pandit, onstage Wednesday at a Fortune magazine conference, said that the protesters’ “sentiments were completely understandable.”
“I would also corroborate that trust has been broken between financial institutions and the citizens of the U.S., and that it’s Wall Street’s job to reach out to Main Street and rebuild that trust,” Mr. Pandit said. The protesters should hold Citi and others “accountable for practicing responsible finance,” he said, “and keep asking us about how we’re doing.”
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via New York State Comptroller report.
That chart is from a new report from the New York State Comptroller’s office on the securities industry in New York City.
It shows that the average salary in the industry in 2010 was $361,330 — five and a half times the average salary in the rest of the private sector in the city ($66,120). By contrast, 30 years ago such salaries were only twice as high as in the rest of the private sector.
(Source: The New York Times)
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An Icy Political Vision →
It is a program to wind down the government’s longstanding guarantee of health care to the elderly and the poor and incinerate the Democrats’ new promise to cover the uninsured; to abolish the Department of Education and its effort to raise national standards; to stop virtually all regulation of the environment and the financial industry; to reimpose military discrimination against gays and lesbians, deport immigrants, cut unemployment insurance and nutrition programs, raise taxes on the poor and lower them for the rich.
