n+1 on Scribd | Tomorrow Museum

This is an aside titled 'n+1 on Scribd' dated 10/29/09

You can download most of the new n+1 issue in “their handsome original format for between $1 and $3 at Scribd.com.”

Posted by Joanne on Oct. 29, 2009

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- "Gaga has done something more specific: She's tapped into one of the primary obsessions of our age -- the changing nature of the self in relation to technology, the ever-expanding media sphere, and that sense of always being in character and publicly visible that Gaga calls "the fame" -- and made it her own obsession, the subject of her songs and the basis of her persona."
  2009-12-11 01:44:35
- Family Portraits of all 56 ethnic groups in China. (via.)
  2009-12-08 23:49:51
- Ugh, exasperated. The other world, the one where I live more that 50 hours a week, is steadily tightening its tether. But I haven't forgotten the tomorrow museum. Almost every night I get a paragraph or an outline of something I would like to be an essay but never have the time to complete. Some of the titles and subjects of these drafts: A Defense of self portraiture, the curious origin of corporate storytelling, whether the internet is killing serendipity, books as fetish objects, a review of James Franco on General Hospital, the post-RSS blogosphere, "The writing of the body" (not going to tell you what that is.) In the meantime, please enjoy some past hits: Graffiti in the Wilderness: Rock Climbing in a Granite Museum, Survival Creativity: Return to Pencil and Paper, Rules for an American Fantasy Road Trip, Handmade Looking Writing, The Overexamined Life: Finding Bits of Ourselves in Digital Ghost Towns, Save or Delete: Post-Scarcity vs e-Clutter, Science Fiction is for the Renaissance Men, Where Are the Renaissance Women?, Five Books I Recommend to Everyone, The Annotation Impulse: Graffiti and Social Media, Finders Keepers? When a Found Object is a Lost Object of Emotional Value, and Why Read at All?
  2009-12-08 23:23:17
- "Subway stations are usually designed in a clean and modernistic style in order to make people forget they are traveling deep underground. How different in the Stockholm subway, in which several of the deep underground stations are cut into solid rock which were left with cave-like ceilings" Check out the photo set at NextNature.
  2009-12-08 02:57:20
- "Architecture and footwear are similar in that the construction houses people and carries people. If you think about a high-heeled United Nude shoe, it carries a human being (the wearer) and houses part of her person (the foot). Because of the smaller scale, a shoe is more mobile, while most architecture remains stationary." - Rem D. Koolhaas, shoe designer and architect and nephew of the creator of the greatest building this decade. His "porn toe" shoes are my obsession, much more comfortable then they look. He adds, "women's footwear you can make a lot of women happy with your products, whereas in traditional architecture you are working with one client for several years. I guess making many women happy is part of the reason I've become a shoe designer—and it's part of the fun that sets shoe design apart from architecture." Perhaps that also explains Zaha Hadid's collaboration with the Brazilian plastic shoe house Melissa. Silver in size 41, please.
  2009-12-08 01:20:13
- Chaos Reigns! I was a guest on Steady Diet of Film podcast with Erin Donovan. We talked about Lars von Trier's Antichrist... the greatest DeBeers commercial of all time.
  2009-12-08 01:09:52
- I am not a Rick Moody fan, so calling his Twitter story for Electric Literature the best thing he's done isn't saying much. While I like updates like this, I try not to cringe over ones like this. But atmosphere is everything. More than the actual prose, I'm charmed by the way Moody's updates interrupt the everyday Lady Gaga and death of print fuss that otherwise takes up my main page. WSJ's Speakeasy has a pretty good post explaining another layer of nuttiness -- The bookstore Vroman's and several other partners are co-publishing the story. So you may see each update several times at once. I follow a girl who cuts and pastes every new update, and I imagine she's not the only one doing this. It is so weird. A storytelling conga line. This is why I love the Internet.
  2009-12-01 23:52:56
- NYT on "destination memory," why it's so hard to remember if you told that story already to someone or not. "The main finding by Dr. Gopie and Dr. MacLeod — that destination memory is relatively weak — helps explain several embarrassing, and annoying, kinds of social interaction... The study authors concluded that outgoing information 'was less integrated with its environmental context — i.e., the person — than was incoming information.'”
  2009-12-01 08:50:05
- Foer is the kind of adult for whom a pre-Huggies life was rudderless.
  2009-12-01 07:38:32
- Emily Gould reviews Christina Nehring. This was (almost) worth Dreamhost's unfortunate delay this evening, "for Nehring, truly loving means embracing pain. She disdains Valentine's roses, cozy snuggling, even vibrators—all the sappy rituals and pathetic artifacts our culture has produced to compensate for an epidemic lack of passion. By contrast, Nehring's old-style 'love' is "a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism ... ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess." Today's 'love' is commodified and ordinary and perpetually available. It can no longer ennoble our souls." I really love Nehring's essays about boring essayists, but I can definitely see where the book turned into a "book-length version of the famous SNL 'My Lovahhhh' sketch... She becomes less a defender of love than a defender of herself in love, which is different."
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