Issue Number 6
Mainstream
- American Politics
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The Politics of Fear, Part IV
Alex Gourevitch is right to say that the campaign against global warming can lead to left fantasies of an antipolitics of emergency. I’ll vouch for this, because I have these fantasies myself. More…
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- Book Reviews
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Orhan Pamuk and the Turks
When I observe the ferocity of emotion that my students bring to the subject of this author whose novels they haven’t read, I promise myself to put a novel by Orhan Pamuk on every syllabus I teach here. More…
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The End, The End, The End
It remains the method of most sci-fi novels to imagine a kind of heightened present, combining and extrapolating extant technologies (an MP3 player … in your brain!) to demonstrate their psychological and political effects. More…
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- Politics
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The Politics of Fear, Part I
Environmentalism is a left-wing politics of fear because it rests on the deeply fearful idea that only an overweening threat to our physical and collective health can inspire us to “transcendence.” More…
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The Politics of Fear, Part III
We will not shift our patterns of life to fit the demands of even the mildest environmentalism; the definition of environmentalism must shift to fit those patterns of life. More…
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The Politics of Fear, Part II
We have a richly articulated market, and a lot of stunted lives. In order to live in any comfort, you must commodify the better part of your life: in this case, you engage in a restricted set of tasks for 40 hours a week. More…
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- Reading, Writing, and Publishing
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Gawker: 2002–2007
It was crucial that Denton hire novice writers for Gawker; these writers came cheap, and they also were useful in their real fascination with their self-important subjects. More…
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