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 Tuesday, January 22, 2002
also from wallace-l today: "in the vein of the whole publishing-is-a-rich-kids-business thing, well, what about all the kids forking over 20,000 to go to an MFA program for two years then setting out into a world of low-paying jobs while they try to make it as
novelists? Sounds like pretty much the same shit. to write, one must have a room of own's own and a bit of security." --sounds like Bordieu's argument in Distinctions, which is, really, probably at the heart of what I can't stand about "literature" and English academia. Perhaps this, this inherent class position of "high" culture, is why I feel like the proverbial square peg trying to fit into a small hole.... 10:10:22 AM 
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via wallace-l (digest #1301).
I agree with this, too; it's true in art galleries, museums, and many other arts/media fields as well. I wouldn't say it's a conspiracy, necessarily, but it definitely has the effect you mention. Unpaid internships, far from being a public service to young people, are something of a disgrace: especially in a grotesquely overpriced city such as New York, only Buffy and Tad could possibly afford to do them. Where did the article that you mention appear? I'd be most interested in reading it.
--reply: -- That article was called "Interns Built the Pyramids" by Jim Frederick, and it was in 'The Baffler' - issue number 9...
You can read part of it on their website,
, where it appears as
"Internment Camp" ...
-- I obviously need to read this.... 10:03:05 AM
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A Fiscal Fantasy: "That shrieking you hear is the sound of Medicare patients being denied coverage to make room for tax cuts. " 8:57:59 AM
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Thinkers in Need of Publishers: "In the 90's, future household names were writing regularly for magazines like Lingua Franca and Feedmag.com. Both ceased publication last year, as did several book-review sections. Other regular outlets have cut back precipitously [apple]FD1 paying less, shutting out new voices. Academia, once a potential solace, is out: at the professional conferences these days new Ph.D.'s walk around with a kicked-in-the-teeth look. The non-Ph.D.'s, of course, are not even in the game.
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--Ok. I agree that the problem is not that there are no more public intellectuals, it's that there's no more public for them to write to; or, more specifically, that it's increasingly difficult to find that public through the ever more dense jungle of mass media garbage that floods our lives. But my real question is: Did Lingua Franca really cease publication last year? Damn. it's true. 8:27:13 AM
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