HeyJaredEntertainment, Weakly
Essays and letters against feeling absolutely hopeless about entertainment, culture, and politics, and the way art touches all of them.
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Metaphors of Resistance (opens the original)
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It doesn’t pay to be sensitive, even if there is a hideous sense of self-satisfaction in quoting yourself as some pathetically online nostradamus. Five years ago, I canceled a book tour (Delta variant) to log on to Zoom and talk with Marlon James about my new book, Image Control: Social Media, Fascism, and the Dismantling of Democracy1. If the book has an elevator pitch, it’s this: Image Control is a critique of social media’s impetus to turn each human life, an event of time, into fixed space i
The Great Recognition (opens the original)
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“Knowing that people and circumstances have not gotten very far in three thousand years leads to a feeling of serenity rather than hopelessness.”~ Christa Wolf, Conditions of a NarrativeI had things to do on Friday but The Odyssey ruined everything. We had two o’clock tickets and, after a half hour of abject previews (“How could anyone want such things?”) and nearly three hours of run time, I made my usual stumble toward the urinals well after five — but, for the first time in years, unable to b
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