Baudrillard, The Matrix, celebrity, and posterity
Baudrillard’s writings of the last twenty years tended to recycle ideas from his early work, says Scott McLemee. “But celebrity is a full-time job,” after all.
Baudrillard’s writings of the last twenty years tended to recycle ideas from his early work, says Scott McLemee. “But celebrity is a full-time job,” after all.
My pal Jonathan D. points me to “a 45-minute video of Denis Johnson reading — and dazedly extemporizing — from Jesus’ Son.”
Nathan Englander was careful about what he read while working on his novel. Now he’s finished, though, and “his nightstand is in danger of collapse.”
How many times do Gonzales et al. get to say “mistakes were made” — in administering the Patriot Act, and more — before someone is held accountable?
TEV admires a new U.K. collection of Coetzee’s essays. The book received a tepid response from a critic who (mystifyingly) contends Coetzee’s fiction is only “super-competent.”