It’s All Bullshit | JS TanThe tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.#The Baffler#Power#Division·thebaffler.com·Nov 30, 2023It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan
Amazon’s Quest to Bleed Music DryAmazon has pillaged the planet in its quest for world domination. Music has not been spared.pointillist shapes—a medallion, a rocket ship—they concluded, prophetically, with thePlatinum#Liz Pelly#The Baffler#Music Streaming#Power#Market Tools·thebaffler.com·Jul 25, 2023Amazon’s Quest to Bleed Music Dry
Many Revolutions | Jamie Lauren Keiles#The Baffler#Power#Internet History#Market Tools·thebaffler.com·Jul 20, 2023Many Revolutions | Jamie Lauren Keiles
Brains on Drugs | John SemleyBetween the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.#The Baffler#Power#We Live In A Time#Market Tools·thebaffler.com·Jun 15, 2023Brains on Drugs | John Semley
Big Play | John SemleyFantasy football conjures not the sporting life of the jock, but the mental life of his boss.#The Baffler#Power#Market Tools·thebaffler.com·Feb 17, 2023Big Play | John Semley
Trumpania, U.S.A. | Ed Simon“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again” has little to actually do with beauty, or culture, or even buildings, and everything to do with power.#Power#The Baffler#Meta-Media#Market Tools·thebaffler.com·Nov 4, 2020Trumpania, U.S.A. | Ed Simon
No Man Is an Island | John SemleyIn a film culture stuffed with comic book heroes, a new Jack London adaptation serves as a riposte to the cult of individualism.#The Baffler#power#Market Tools·thebaffler.com·Sep 27, 2020No Man Is an Island | John Semley