Long articles that are worth reading

[parastexis]

https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/cthe ... 14826/5697
this essay by Baudrillard was written 20 years ago but it's incredible how accurately it applies to today and genuinely changed my understanding of how political parties work or don't

[Ques]

found this while doing thesis trudging, felt like people here would appreciate

[rjbman]

This fits about 4 different threads but I figured I'd post it here:

[rublev]

[Ques]

DFW on prescriptivism

http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/Aut ... nUsage.pdf

[adiabatic]

[adiabatic]

[eli7]

This isn't a very intellectually stimulating article but my friends and I have talked quite extensively about gay loneliness and I think it's worth reading. It's not even that long I guess

[oucho]

interesting article about how our online data is being used to profile us and influence elections
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... -trump-win

[rjbman]

Bit of a dump

: After learning she doesn’t have long to live, a woman composes a dating profile for the man she will leave behind.

: Alt-right conspiracy theorists think that the government killed the aspiring Libertarian filmmaker David Crowley. The truth is far stranger.

: In which Summer Brennan attempts to catch up on a year's reading

: The South’s manufacturing renaissance comes with a heavy price.

: Before it was published, censors approved Ahmed Naji's subversive novel 'Using Life' – so how did he end up in jail for what he wrote?





: What happens when a movement of gamers recognizes they’re not players, but pawns?

[Ques]

[fun_yunchables]

opinion piece that i think isn't just limited to computer scientists

[WussWayne]

A story on slavery in modern America
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... ry/524490/
I'd urge fellow users in developing countries (where middle class+ people tend to have live-in maids) to reflect on whether the people who live with them are paid a fair wage and treated well.

[Ques]

[Ques]

[Stolsdos]

Dope paper I read the other day over the US media/government representation of the 21 non-repatriated US soldiers during the Korean War

[Ques]

[rjbman]

Great article about Lagos, Nigeria - . Images really flow well with the text, too.

[rjbman]

- has me so very psyched for her new album

[Ques]

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying ... -of-profit
https://thenewinquiry.com/be-aware-nick ... -politics/
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-7/essays/onfood/
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/naysayers
https://thenewinquiry.com/this-is-not-a-simulation/

best stuff i've read recently^^

just found out about n+1, baffler, and new inquiry in the past few weeks. anyone got similar mag reccs?

[deadkitty]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... es/537909/

great article that articulates really well a lot of stuff about like white working class anomia. p Must Read

[fun_yunchables]

semirelated rant below

[Ques]

^^ if you want to look more into this i really recommend the writings of bruce cumings. i just read his book parallax visions, and in it he does an excellent job unpacking the history of the DPRK/USA relationship.

if you haven't read it already, i would also recommend evan osnos's big piece on the DPRK in the new yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017 ... orth-korea

if i knew how to bet on the pullitzers i'd put my money on this winning one

[fun_yunchables]

[Ques]

Wesley Morris is one of my new favorite writers––this piece of his was groundbreaking for me, I highly recommend it if you're interested in reading about racism in the gay community, representation in film/television, and frank talk about penises in a non-phallocentric way.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... .html?_r=0

I thought this other piece was interesting in that it sums up how many people think about our current 'social justice' climate, has some novel points, and tries to connect many complex and disparate topics, while absolutely butchering the work of many nuanced theorists and activists. At the same time, it's still thought provoking and has started many fun and productive conversations in the spheres I live in, so I'll pass it on in case anyone wants to get similar results!

http://theamericanreader.com/jenesuispa ... e-leftism/

Lastly, this review of two parts of a biographical series on stalin was really fascinating. I would like to read something similar about Mao. Asks questions that are very pertinent today when we (if not we, I do, at least) see more and more leftist defenses of the USSR's practices in conversation and need to have painful conversations about democracy/communism/socialism and individual agency/structural causes of the way this revolution played out

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017 ... -stalinist

[Northwest]

Found one of the wayward/graduated members of our times/interests, @chaykak on twitter.



Succinct (11 paragraphs) but I found the comparison compelling.



Monocle: A lot is in a name it turns out.



Minimalism, misinterpretation, and you.



"But now it is artificial and universal."

(Also contains this monstrosity of a quote): "Fashion is definitely head-over-limited-edition sneakers for streetwear," says E.P. Cutler, the author of the report.

"Hyperobjects are real whether or not someone is thinking of them." + "Supreme is a hyperobject."

[kremvax]

[rjbman]

[rjbman]

- Punks and birdwatching, what else could you want in an article?

- Title. Essentially documents the rise and fall of Italy's Five Star Movement (they're now basically right wing xenophobes )

- the story of being an Internet Person

[zevolution]