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An unfinished fiction is a memento mori.
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For six decades or more, Gary Snyder has written a poetry of experience. And a poetry, almost always, of a brusque wisdom with the quality—somehow, for me—of the weather in the Pacific Northwest. That lush cold, that abundance in the fog. Here is “For the Children,” from his collection Turtle Island, published in 1974 by New Directions—sounding to me like it was written yesterday, for us and our awful moment:
The rising hills, the slopes,
of statistics
lie before us.
the steep climb
of everything, going up,
up, as we all
go down.
Then the poem lets in the dream, the idealism, and you can’t tell, in the second stanza, if the voice wants to mock or affirm that idealism, that dream:
In the next century
or the one beyond that,
they say,
are valleys, pastures,
we can meet there in peace
if we make it.
In the third and fourth stanzas—and this is the turn that leaves me blown open—the poet grounds us in the learnings of human experience, lays them down in the language, sturdy and not wasting a letter, as the poem ends:
To help celebrate our twenty-fifth year of being on the information superhighway, we have reached out to some of our current and former columnists for check-ins and updates. Today’s columnist, John Moe, is a long-time, hall-of-fame contributor to the Internet Tendency. His Pop Song Correspondences first appeared on our site in 2004. In 2014, he put out an entire (and hilarious) book of them. We’re happy to have John back on the site today with a brand-new letter.
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Dear Mayor Slick,
The Indiana Department of Safety has contracted my firm to evaluate the causes of the ineffective city government and crumbling infrastructure in and around the city of Rocknrollsburg (formerly Fort Wayne). We have been performing inspections and attending city government meetings or “concerts” for several months, and we present here a summary of our findings.
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Labour MP Naz Shah received a wave of hatred and abuse after resigning as one of Keir Starmer's Shadow Ministers over the issue of a ceasefire in Palestine
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As the fragile truce between Hamas and Israel continues to yield the release of hostages and prisoners, Israel is vowing to escalate the war.
The post Prisoners, Propaganda, and the Battle Over the Gaza War Narrative appeared first on The Intercept.
Back in April, Johns Hopkins’ Center for Economy and Society and Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences held a workshop on the political ideologies of Silicon Valley. It was a great event, in large part because it brought together a somewhat disconnected community. People had been thinking about Silicon Valley in history, […]
Amjad, a 45-year-old olive harvester living in the city of Qalqilya in the West Bank, has worked on a plot of land since the age of seven. The land, which has been in his family for generations, holds a special significance. ‘Working on the land is a form of worship and one of the rituals […]
. Many economists — yours truly included — are highly sceptical of the ability of mainstream economics to deliver useful models. Some of us even question the ‘modern’ insistence on modelling — “if it’s not in a model, it’s not economics.” Even if we accept the limitation of only being able to say something about […]
The proposed change to the definition of extremism risks tipping society into a dystopian political space, argues Adeeb Ayton
Powerful companies are removing hundreds of medicines from insurance plans — and they’re spending millions to stop attempts at reform.
Rebecca Freeman, Richard Baldwin and Angelos Theodorakopoulos Supply chain disruptions are routinely blamed for things ranging from elevated inflation to shortages of medical equipment in the pandemic. But how should exposure to foreign supply chains be measured? Using a global input-output database, this post shows that the full exposure of US manufacturing to foreign suppliers … Continue reading Supply chain disruptions: shocks, links, and hidden exposure
Overcrowding, rising prison deaths, financial cutbacks, and no deliverable plan – the prison system in England and Wales is close to chaos
Today, I consider the latest development in the entrenchment of neoliberalism in the Australian policy sector, specifically, the latest decision by the Treasurer to excise his powers under Section 11 of the Reserve Bank Act 1959, which allowed the Treasurer to overrule RBA policy decisions if they considered them not to be in the national…
