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A new Baffler is always a cause for celebration. A Baffler themed on the corporatization and commodification of "play" doubly so.As with most issues of the Baffler, the poetry doesn't quite do it for me. Overall the theme is tight and concise and most of the long-form pieces hit their marks.Susan Faludi's analysis of Floyd Dell is excellent, and Frank, Graeber, Havrilevsky, Pareene and Lehmann should all be proud of their contributions. The two biggest pieces, one about science fiction and the o...
Took me awhile this time, but the issue does not disappoint. Highlights are the piece by David Graeber about play, the Susan Faludi article on feminism, and the excellent take-down of Vice magazine.
Those contrarian wits at The Baffler, founded by Thomas Frank, dole out another heaping scoop of brain food with their 24th quarterly issue. The theme of this collection is play, a subversive act in the age of market hegemony, with writings by a host of incisive thinkers like Susan Faludi, David Graeber and Barbara Ehrenreich.As a San Franciscan witnessing massive tenant displacement courtesy of our new tech oligarchy, I read with great interest the cautionary tale titled "The People's Republic
