August 15, 2020
Hit The Ground Running
The Asset Economy
What we are seeing in the present era is the growing importance of intergenerational transfer and inheritance for the determination of life chances.
Crucially, however, this is not best understood as a return to an earlier era, when property was passed on (generally among men) from one generation to another in a more or less stable and mostly uneventful way. Inheritance is no longer a simple transmission of property titles, but increasingly a strategically timed transfer of funds that need to be leveraged and put to work in the speculative logic of the asset economy.
Do NOT watch these if you have photosensitive epilepsy.
The Flicker is a legendary 1966 experimental film by Tony Conrad that uses alternating black and white frames to produce digital stroboscopic effects. (The Flicker at archive.org)
Noisefields is a 1974 experimental video by Steina and Woody Vasulka that visualizes the deflected energy of an analog video signal. (Noisefields at archive.org)
Do not watch these if you have photosensitive epilepsy.
Noisefields is a 1974 experimental video by Steina and Woody Vasulka that visualizes the deflected energy of an analog video signal. (Noisefields at archive.org)
Do not watch these if you have photosensitive epilepsy.
neuroatypicality in the workplace
"should I tell future managers about my ADHD?" Advice from Ask A Manager, and many comments from people with ADHD about how to handle it in job searches and in the workplace. A followup to "how to succeed at work when you’re not neurotypical... an open thread for readers who aren’t neurotypical about what’s been useful for you". Relatedly: "mental health/neurodivergent symptoms as strengths, a [Twitter] thread.... 'Doesn't pick up on social cues' -> Immune to attempts to distract with indirect digs or insulting tone. Unflappable; focused."
Come for the setar, stay for the kamencheh
Kayhan Kalhor, playing a solo setar performance in Tehran's Abgineh museum (runs 55:34). Kalhor is also a master kamencheh player, an instrument he discusses here. More about the setar, previously. [more inside]
Five Flops in Five Days
Last week, Vulture published five in-depth articles about legendary Broadway bombs.
"Within Fifteen Minutes, It Became Unbearable" (Jim Steinman vampire gothic comedy musical: too much? Yes)
A Musical About Joseph McCarthy Financed By a Scam Artist Ex-Con. What Could Go Wrong? (an accidentally overproduced workshop piece with "a musical number in which legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow takes you on a virtual tour of Joe McCarthy’s alcohol-ravaged liver")
A Dud Among Duds (the "titanically bad" Moose Murders)
Donald Trump’s One-Show Career As a Broadway Producer ("When I told him I had to close it, he said, ‘David, what should I do now?’ ... I said, ‘Why don’t you try real estate?’”)
When Superman Briefly Flew on Broadway (with a cameo from Justin McElroy) [more inside]
"Within Fifteen Minutes, It Became Unbearable" (Jim Steinman vampire gothic comedy musical: too much? Yes)
A Musical About Joseph McCarthy Financed By a Scam Artist Ex-Con. What Could Go Wrong? (an accidentally overproduced workshop piece with "a musical number in which legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow takes you on a virtual tour of Joe McCarthy’s alcohol-ravaged liver")
A Dud Among Duds (the "titanically bad" Moose Murders)
Donald Trump’s One-Show Career As a Broadway Producer ("When I told him I had to close it, he said, ‘David, what should I do now?’ ... I said, ‘Why don’t you try real estate?’”)
When Superman Briefly Flew on Broadway (with a cameo from Justin McElroy) [more inside]
New Jersey: Images of the Garden State
From the Skylands, to the Palisades, to the farms and cranberry bogs, and down the Jersey Shore to Cape May, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of New Jersey Some cool nuggets of information here: did you know the water around the Statue of Liberty is owned by New Jersey whereas the actual island of the statue is part of New York?
Book Wormhole
Idiom is “vortex of books” installation at the Prague Municipal Library by Slovakia-born artist Matej Kren
USA TODAY Women of the Century marks 100 years since the 19th Amendment
State By State: USA TODAY Network’s Women of the Century marks 100 years since the 19th Amendment "We set the parameters. Since we are commemorating the 100th anniversary of women being granted the right to vote in the United States, we would limit the women to those who lived between 1920 and today. ... To spotlight as many women as possible, we aimed to have every list be unique. For instance, if a woman hailed from one state but made her mark in another, we would have to decide which state could claim her."
A fraudulent election spurs nationwide protest, strikes in Belarus
The 2020 Belarusian presidential election is widely viewed as fraudulent due to accusations of falsifications of ballot results. [more inside]
The Agencies Crumble and Surrender
MK Lees describes how the Writers Guild of America West brought Hollywood talent agencies to heel and ended the practice of packaging fees that was eating into their compensation.
Streetview of 1940s NYC
Streetview of New York ca 1940: Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of every building in the five boroughs of New York City. In 2018, the NYC Municipal Archives completed the digitization and tagging of these photos, and Julian Boilen created a website to place them on a map -- every dot is a photo. [more inside]
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