The traditional media “still tend to treat games as an odd mix of the slightly menacing and the alien: more like exotic organisms dredged from the deep sea than complex human creations. This lack has become increasingly jarring, as video games and the culture that surrounds them have become very big news indeed.”
Tag: 05.08
One Magazine’s List Of The World’s 100 Top Public Intellectuals
Prospect makes a list and checks it twice. Noam Chomsky tops the list, getting twice as many votes as the runner-up.
What, After All, Is A “Public Intellectual”?
“What, then, are the uses of the term ‘public intellectual’? It assists us in defining someone who makes his or her living through the battle of ideas. It often helps us to learn something about a foreign culture or state; the Russian intellectual dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s provide a gold standard in this regard.”
The Latest Book-Killer? Please!
They have survived the advent of radio, television, the Internet, and Nintendo. Rather, they will be challenged once again, and books’ content will find new ways to express itself more effectively.
The World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals
A ranking by Prospect magazine, with an invitation to vote…
A Post-Oprah Tale (James Frey Returns)
“An investigation by Vanity Fair suggests that the story is significantly more complicated than Man Cons World. There were no fake Web sites, no wigs worn, no relatives pretending to be spokesmen for nonexistent corporations. It is the story, first, of a literary genre in which publishers thought they had found the surefire recipe for success, but one with such dangerously combustible ingredients that it could explode at any moment.”
America’s Chamber Orchestra Proves Its Reinvention
Earlier this decade the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra was in arrears and struggling to stay afloat. Bruce Coppock suggested a radical rethink of the orchestra model. So far… the results are good.