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You'd think after 27 years critiquing "the business of culture and the culture business", The Baffler might start to get repetitive, but it's precisely the nature of their subject - specifically, its talent for conflating novelty with progress in the interests of driving consumption - that ensures the steady supply of fresh new offerings to the market, traditional or intellectual, to expose in all their gleaming, focus-grouped folly. The newest batch of targets includes a fair number of perennia...
The Baffler is quickly becoming one of my favorite magazines for cultural and social criticism. This is a collection of their best essays and pieces from 2013-2014, critiquing the corporate takeover of creativity, feminism, and immaterial aspects of human life, effectively commodifying reality. There are fantastic pieces here; 50 Shades of Grey as a fairy tale of entering the 1%, Prometheus as a science fiction tale questioning the goodness of God, and on how bureaucracy makes people stupid. Rea...
sooo good omg
These are all available for free online but they're all some combination of funny, smart, insightful, and thought-provoking and totally worth paying for. The last article eviscerating media coverage of Obama (highlighting, among other things, a book that in Obama's Indonesia years spends twice as much time talking about the variety of snacks as explaining the huge pogrom of communists and communist sympathizers real and imagined) alone is worth the price of admission.
Fight the power.
No Future for You was a collection of essays from the magazine The Baffler, a digital publication that takes aim at a multitiude of different problems and systems infecting America today. I say infecting because their sites in this book were specifically on corporate and political scam artists, and how they peddle progress, innovation, and other buzz words as false signs of progress and improvement while giving nothing real of beneficial to communities. There was a whole section of articles in t...
I didn't really know anything about The Baffler going into this. The only writers in here that I've read at all are David Graeber and Barbara Ehrenreich, and I find a lot of their work to be pretty interesting, although Graeber always finds a way to piss me off at the same time. All the other contributors in my opinion try too hard to sound clever, using big words even when there's no reason for them, sometimes incorrectly, and therefore come across as annoyingly pedantic despite not really havi...
