Just Out of Frame (interview with Sarah Stillman, journalist) | Guernica
The New Yorker staff writer on self-censorship, pursuing topics that readers -- and, sometimes, editors -- might initially dismiss, and how a subject becomes a story. [link]
The New Yorker staff writer on self-censorship, pursuing topics that readers -- and, sometimes, editors -- might initially dismiss, and how a subject becomes a story. [link]
Walking with the Wind (interview with Bryan Stevenson, lawyer) | Guernica
The Alabama-based lawyer on who we talk about when we talk about the Old South, bringing 12 Years a Slave to Montgomery, and how his project to locate and mark the sites of slave markets speaks the language of Southern history. [link]
The Alabama-based lawyer on who we talk about when we talk about the Old South, bringing 12 Years a Slave to Montgomery, and how his project to locate and mark the sites of slave markets speaks the language of Southern history. [link]
The Psychic Life of Paperwork (interview with Ben Kafka, historian and psychoanalyst-in-training) | LARB
We'll never know everything going on inside our own minds, let alone in somebody else's, let alone somebody who's been dead for fifty or a hundred or three hundred years. Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to find out. [link]
We'll never know everything going on inside our own minds, let alone in somebody else's, let alone somebody who's been dead for fifty or a hundred or three hundred years. Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to find out. [link]
Interview with Eyal Weizman (architect) | The Believer
People tell you that architecture is built to protect you against the elements. Primarily architecture is built to protect you from other people. [link]
People tell you that architecture is built to protect you against the elements. Primarily architecture is built to protect you from other people. [link]
Every Single Thing You See is Future Trash (interview with Robin Nagle, anthropologist) | The Believer
You’ve said that “garbage is very scary to us culturally, and it is also… one of the single most fascinating things you could ever study.” And, at least back when you started, garbage was a “cognitive problem” that you didn’t fully understand. Why do you think most people, at least overtly, don’t react to garbage with such a complicated fascination? [reprinted in Esquire Russia] [link]
You’ve said that “garbage is very scary to us culturally, and it is also… one of the single most fascinating things you could ever study.” And, at least back when you started, garbage was a “cognitive problem” that you didn’t fully understand. Why do you think most people, at least overtly, don’t react to garbage with such a complicated fascination? [reprinted in Esquire Russia] [link]
