The Baffler No. 24
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Let the games begin! The Baffler no. 24: The Jig Is Up! is dedicated to all the ways in which play is now work, science is now dogma, and even science fiction is a billionaire's playground. From David Graeber and Barbara Ehrenreich on why animal play can't be rationalized away, Ian Bogost's adventures with Candy Crush Saga, and our own John Summers's tour of the people's republic of Zuckerstan (formerly Cambridge, MA), it's guaranteed to be fun, fun, fun.
Contents:
Under the Table
The Rites of Play
John Summers
Against Merit
Gabriel Zaid
Nerds on the Knife Edge
Jaron Lanier
Successitudesâ„¢
God’s Game
Erik Simon
Photo Graphic
The Real Toy Story
Michael Wolf
The Jig Is Up!
The People’s Republic of Zuckerstan
John Summers
What’s the Point If We Can’t Have a Little Fun?
David Graeber
A Thing or Two about a Thing or Two, a.k.a. Science
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Billionaires’ Fantasia
Gene Seymour
Hoard d’ Oeuvres: Art of the 1 Percent
Rhonda Lieberman
Play, Dammit!
Heather Havrilesky
Rage Against the Machines
Ian Bogost
The Dollar Debauch
Neoliberalism, Revolution in Reverse
Chris Lehmann
Lackeys
Deal Me Out
A stacked deck at the New York Times
Alex Pareene
The Vertically Integrated Rape Joke
The triumph of Vice
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Story
Bcc: Dridge
Paul Maliszewski and J. Wagner
Poems
Chemical Life
Timothy Donnelly
Learned
Fanny Howe
Narcissus Tweets
Airea D. Matthews
Concerned Possibly Overly Concerned with The Eagle Warehouse & Storage Company of Brooklyn 1893
Dara Wier
A Monkey Could Do This (and)
You and Me are not friends, OK?
Simone White
It was the year we turned to dragons
Metta Sáma
What It Look Life
Terrance Hayes
A Poet’s Guide to the Assassination of JFK [the Assassination of Poetry]
Thomas Sayers Ellis
The Literary Playground
Feminism for Them?
Susan Faludi
Tom Clancy, Military Man
Andrew Bacevich
Decently Downward
An appointment with John O’Hara
William T. Vollmann
Grave Dance
How Sweet Is It?
George Scialabba
Xcerpt
Feminism for Men
Floyd Dell
Graphic Art
Brad Holland
Mark Dancey
Mark Wagner
Contents:
Under the Table
The Rites of Play
John Summers
Against Merit
Gabriel Zaid
Nerds on the Knife Edge
Jaron Lanier
Successitudesâ„¢
God’s Game
Erik Simon
Photo Graphic
The Real Toy Story
Michael Wolf
The Jig Is Up!
The People’s Republic of Zuckerstan
John Summers
What’s the Point If We Can’t Have a Little Fun?
David Graeber
A Thing or Two about a Thing or Two, a.k.a. Science
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Billionaires’ Fantasia
Gene Seymour
Hoard d’ Oeuvres: Art of the 1 Percent
Rhonda Lieberman
Play, Dammit!
Heather Havrilesky
Rage Against the Machines
Ian Bogost
The Dollar Debauch
Neoliberalism, Revolution in Reverse
Chris Lehmann
Lackeys
Deal Me Out
A stacked deck at the New York Times
Alex Pareene
The Vertically Integrated Rape Joke
The triumph of Vice
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Story
Bcc: Dridge
Paul Maliszewski and J. Wagner
Poems
Chemical Life
Timothy Donnelly
Learned
Fanny Howe
Narcissus Tweets
Airea D. Matthews
Concerned Possibly Overly Concerned with The Eagle Warehouse & Storage Company of Brooklyn 1893
Dara Wier
A Monkey Could Do This (and)
You and Me are not friends, OK?
Simone White
It was the year we turned to dragons
Metta Sáma
What It Look Life
Terrance Hayes
A Poet’s Guide to the Assassination of JFK [the Assassination of Poetry]
Thomas Sayers Ellis
The Literary Playground
Feminism for Them?
Susan Faludi
Tom Clancy, Military Man
Andrew Bacevich
Decently Downward
An appointment with John O’Hara
William T. Vollmann
Grave Dance
How Sweet Is It?
George Scialabba
Xcerpt
Feminism for Men
Floyd Dell
Graphic Art
Brad Holland
Mark Dancey
Mark Wagner
