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Published by The Baffler Foundation, Inc., 2019
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Published by The Baffler Foundation, Inc.; New York, 2021
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Softcover Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [JOURNALISM]. Editor: Jonathon Sturgeon. Contributors: Tarence Ray, Evan Malmgren, Matthew Shen Goodman, Hussein Omar, Tope Folarin, et al. "The Baffler Magazine, Jul-Aug 2021, No. 58. 'Secret Connexions.'" The Baffler Foundation, Inc.; New York, 2021. English language. Soft…cover perfect-bound magazine. 136 pages. Color illustrations. Text clean. Near Fine. No ISSN. "The epistemic weather is inclement. Possibly the most storm-damaged truth claim of all is the one that promises market exchange can provide a stable foundation for democratic life. Itâ??s this dying rumor of liberalism that Tope Folarin considers in â??Masters of Reality,â? the opening essay of this fifty-eighth issue of the magazine, where the childhood memory of a transaction gone wrong hints at the white arrangement of truth. In very much the same spirit, Tarence Rayâ??s â??United in Rageâ? has in its sights the web of myths thatâ??s pushed the opioid crisis in eastern Kentucky, a region plagued by the kind of transactional logic that has offered the poor not the truth but rather another means to die. Their mortal remains are often subject to yet more bureaucratic dealing, as we hear in Wendy Selene Pérezâ??s â??Letter From Texas,â? a story of migration, debt, and a familyâ??s struggle to repatriate a loved oneâ??s ashes to Mexico at the pandemicâ??s height. Mohammad Ali, meanwhile, writes of his experience reporting on Hindu vigilantes in Modiâ??s India, where a â??fringeâ? ideology has now become a constant threat to the countryâ??s Muslim population and journalismâ??s â??conventions of self-effacement and objectivityâ? are little match for the grief and fear endured by Muslim reporters.Famous men, in these conditions, act mysteriously, or much worse. In Hussein Omarâ??s survey of Edward Saidâ??s career, we see how a charismatic public intellectual can easily become a cipher for a biographerâ??s ideas about what matters. New York mayoral also-ran Andrew Yang, in Matthew Shen Goodmanâ??s analysis, likewise loses himself to competing truths, in this case about the political market-value of Asian American life. Madison Mainwaring dissects the horrors of ongoing sexual abuse in elite French cultural institutions, where men become rumors to evade detection, responsibility, and prosecution. We donâ??t know how to cut through this electrofogâ??to find what David Hume called â??the secret connexionâ? that explains why one event follows another. But we suspect whatever works will keep to the light of Jess McAllenâ??s â??The Anti-Antidepressant Syndicate,â? which uncovers Marxists and Scientologists alike in its effort to get to the bottom (or the top) of the anti-psychiatry debate. Or Evan Malmgrenâ??s strange trip into the Quiet Zone of those living in fear of 5G. Or Marlowe Granadosâ??s defense of the bimboâ??a figure in pop culture who is always beset by nasty rumors. Or J.W. McCormack and John Semleyâ??s inquiries into the fiction of Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon, respectively, or new fiction from Alexandra Kleemanâ??all consulted or presented here, but never made into an instrument, a smokescreen, or even a rumor.".
The Baffler Magazine, Sep-Oct 2021, No. 59, "Ill Liberalism."
Editor: Jonathon Sturgeon; Contributors: Kirsten Weld, Dana Kopel, Zinzi Clemmons, Richard Rhodes, Dale Peck, et al.
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Softcover Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Editor: Jonathon Sturgeon. Contributors: Kirsten Weld, Dana Kopel, Zinzi Clemmons, Richard Rhodes, Dale Peck, et al. "The Baffler Magazine, Sep-Oct 2021, No. 59, 'Ill Liberalism.'" The Baffler Foundation, Inc.; New York, 2021. English language. Softcover perfect-bound magazine. 136…pages. Color illustrations. Text clean. Back page has slight ripples. Front cover slightly bows out. Very Good Plus. No ISSN. "DON?T LOOK NOW. Contemporary liberals are summoning an omnium gatherum of dead words and outdated textbooks, dredging up confused accounts of Enlightenment rationality that tend to mutate into smug but underfunded mandates to ?believe in science!? and calling everything from Bernie Sanders?s speeches to January?s Capitol riot to the global profusion of Black Lives Matter protests ?illiberal,? an insult so circular it?s almost vicious.With the election of Joe Biden, this liberal consensus found its politics ascendant?we?re a long way away from the illiberal summer of 2020. But what to do with all this power so over-theorized and underused by the solutions-free left? By this time they?d lost sight of, or confusedly tried to befriend, their enemies on the right, though the latter continued to grow less and less subtle, as we see in the Trumpification, even now, of liberal pets like J.D. Vance. No, at the climax, liberals got sweaty and confused, ?trapped at the stage of analysis,? as David Berman once wrote, ?unable to perform some simple task,? like canceling student loan debt. By its own diagnosis, liberalism was ill. It needed to be ?rehabilitated.?In issue no. 59 of The Baffler, ?ILL LIBERALISM,? we?ll not do that. Instead we anatomize liberalism?s self-diagnosed illnesses, from its preoccupation with the post-Enlightenment idea that ?history will judge us,? a way of deflecting responsibility for real-time justice in the case of atrocity; to the way it twists international consensus on nuclear deterrence, leaving nations saddled with terrifying weapons that have been used ?repeatedly across the years to threaten and to dominate, though not always successfully??and one expert?s prescription for ?possibly the only non-destructive way out of the double bind of arms races.?Then there?s the nearly forgotten history of ?corporate liberalism,? which might help explain why liberals today love to align themselves with progressive causes in order to latch onto and temper the forces of populism, democratic socialism, and antitrust policy, among others. Liberalism has always been, we argue, the politics of business?all the way back to slavery. And the business of liberalism is making everyone, including liberals, sick.".
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Published by The Baffler Foundation; New York, NY, 2021
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Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover Magazine. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Editor: Jonathon Sturgeon. "The Baffler Magazine, Nov-Dec 2021, No. 60, 'The Squandering Earth.'" The Baffler Foundation, Inc.; New York, 2021. English language. Softcover perfect-bound magazine. 136 pages. Color illustrations. Text clean. Still in shrink-wrap. Sticker on front of… shrink-wrap. New. No ISSN. "IF YOU?RE FEELING FRACKED, maybe it?s time to make the Great Resignation work for you. In August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 4.3 million people left their jobs, the highest quit rate they?ve yet recorded. A March 2021 survey indicated that 41 percent of employees worldwide have considered resigning this year already; another survey, also published in March, reported that more than half of American workers are realizing they?re burned out on the job. Whether the ?pandemic epiphanies? of newly existentialist workers will last is debated on television, but we know for sure one of those surveys was published by Microsoft, and the other by the job platform Indeed. At last the cycle of being tired all the time reveals its shape: the exhaustion we feel because of our jobs is being monitored and extracted, as data, by the transnational corporations that monitor and extract our work, which exhausts us.In ?The Squandering Earth,? issue no. 60 of The Baffler, we cast aspersions on the accumulation-crazed multinationals ransacking the planet for profit, making us all feel like used-up bottles of stuff while they amass exponentially more indestructible bottles of stuff. This waste-producing apparatus is vast, Ajay Singh Chaudhary writes in ?The Extractive Circuit,? ?the leaden reality of a global human ecological niche organized for maximal profitability?no matter how difficult or costly to maintain.? This circuit, he stresses, ?is not a metaphor,? but an accelerating systems-crash that steals time and resources from zones of least resistance, like fragile habitats. One such zone, Zachariah Webb writes in ?Dead Pools,? is the state of Arizona, which has achieved almost total dehydration in a global scheme with no prospects for reform. Another is Sudan, where drought, famine, and civil war project a future of stark nomadism, Jérôme Tubiana reports. And as Bryce Covert explains in her survey of the United States? frayed infrastructure for distributing pandemic relief, stopping this systems-crash will require a jolt to our political imagination.At other nodes along the circuit: Dave Denison follows the trail of his own recycling to the overwhelming realization that single-use plastic production will soon swamp the habitable world; Allyson Paty documents her waste stream against the ?environmental ouroboros? of liberal individualist ethics; and Samuel Stein surveys the ultra-skinny high-rises and other towers of waste that now sprawl upward in our cities like accusing fingers pointed at god.In conditions of total extraction, culture is mined like anything else. Rich Woodall writes accordingly about copyright in a music industry dominated by three major labels, and other investment groups, that strip catalogs and even songs themselves for sellable parts. In ?Beckett on the Richter Scale,? Marco Roth looks at the work of Evan Dara, an anonymous novelist whose intensifying fantasies of disaster seem to draw mysteriously from disparate communities. And, mercifully, J.W. McCormack?s ?Mr. Garbage? finds hope in the fiction of Donald Barthelme, whose ?junkman aesthetic allowed him to regulate the temperature in his model worlds and reframe their parameters accordingly.? Node, zone, worker, consumer, or resource: we?ll have to do some regulating to overcome this fatigue and ask, as Chaudhary does, ?How has this level of degradation become so acceptable?.
