Environment and Apocalypse
Hamilton Nolan, “Doom Draws Nearer.”
Daniel Cech, “How the Apocalypse Would Happen if Heaven Were a Small Nonprofit.”
Robert O. Self, “Cataclysm in Suburbia: The Dark, Twisted History of America’s Oil-Addicted Middle Class.”
Emma Hansen, “From Nuclear Bombs to Killer Robots: How Amoral Technologies Become Immoral Weapons.”
Hyperarchival
Annalee Newitz, “The First College in the US to Open without any Books in its Library.”
Bill Chappell, “Bookless Public Library Opens in Texas.”
Ben Jurney, “2014: A Facebook Odyssey.”
Robinson Meyer, “There Still Isn’t One Good Way to Represent the Internet in Art.”
Becky Sullivan, “For The First Time, Real Tattoos Make Their Madden Debut.”
Danielle Kurtzleben, “How Facebook is Clearing Clickbait from Your News Feed.”
The Eternal September of the No Laptop Policy.
And Adam Gopnik, “Does It Help to Know History?”
International
French Government Dissolved Over Economic Policy.
Politics
Nicki Lisa Cole, “The Ferguson Syllabus.”
Jelani Cobb, “Bullets and Ballots.”
Christian Parenti, “Reading Hamilton from the Left.”
Literature and Culture
Maggie Nelson review Ben Lerner’s 10:04 in “Slipping the Surly Bonds of Earth: On Ben Lerner’s Latest.”
Steven Shaviro reviews Peter Watts’s Echopraxia in “Ferociously Intellectual Pulp Writing.”
My friend Carolyn Kellogg reviews David Mitchell’s Bone Clocks.
Michiko Kakutani review David Mitchell’s Bone Clocks in “A Lifetime Watching the World Devolve.”
Sean J. Kelly, “Adventures in Reading the American Novel.”
Diana Clarke on Bill Morris’s Motor City Burning: “The Idea of Detroit.”
Michael Finkel, “The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit.”
Imaginaries of the Future: Historicizing the Present.
Sage Ashford annotates Multiversity, no. 1.
And an eleven year old and his father recreate scenes from Infinite Jest in Legos.
Humanities and Higher Education
Understanding Your Academic Friend: Job Market Edition.
Corey Robin, “What Would Mary Beard Do? Bonnie Honig on How a Different Chancellor Might Respond to the Salaita Affair.”
Brock Read, “Who’s Getting the Tenure Track Jobs? It’s Time to Find Out.”
Mitch Daniels, former Governor of Indiana and current president of Purdue University, is teaching a class this fall. Steven Stofferahn asks, “What Value in Prof. Daniels’s Class at Purdue?” The same Mitch Daniels who just wanted to prevent kids from reading Howard Zinn.
Well now. Catherine Stukel, “Is That Whining Adjunct Someone We Want Teaching Our Young” and “Teaching Cadence.”
And Adam Heiderbrink-Bruno, “Syllabus as Manifesto: A Critical Approach to Classroom Culture.”
The Hyperarchival Parallax 