“In our modern surveillance state, it’s possible we have in some perverse and unexpected fashion actually regained something of the comforts of being known by a higher authority—something that the modern West had largely lost, and for which we have perhaps unconsciously longed.”
Tag: 12.15
Are We Drowning In Information Overload? (Or Is It Something Else?)
“Often the flood of information is held to be directly or indirectly responsible for what used to be described as an existential crisis of meaning experienced by an individual writer.”
Why Business Schools Are Teaching The Study Of Literature
Business schools, particularly elite ones, turned to the idea of grooming conscientious leaders instead of narrow-minded managers. At the same time, they turned to the narrative arts—the practice of “storytelling”—to help them chart this future anew.
Pasadena’s Boston Court Confounds Definitions For The 99-Seat Rule
“The perception of wealth has made the theatre Exhibit A for what Equity apparently thought was wrong with small L.A. theatre: an immaculate venue with acclaimed world-premiere plays that didn’t pay its actors minimum wage.”
The Cool School And Its Hollowed-Out Values
“I believe that the progressive fervor of the humanities, while it reenergized inquiry in the 1980s and has since inspired countless valid lines of inquiry, masks a second-order complex that is all about the thrill of destruction. In the name of critique, anything except critique can be invaded or denatured. This is the game of academic cool that flourished in the era of high theory.”
Marty Walsh Campaigned As Boston’s Arts Mayor. So What’s He Doing As The City’s Theatres Implode?
“It suddenly looked as if the city’s theater ecosystem was imploding under Walsh’s watch. Boston desperately needed City Hall to wield its clout so that a pair of long-standing institutions would not be left dark. But in the crucial weeks after the announcements, where was the arts mayor?”
Data: What Musicians Earn (And How They Earn It)
A new survey finds 45 revenue streams and reveals what musicians earn.
Despite The Claims, Music Can’t Fix A Broken City
“Music can enhance life’s achievements and console us in our losses, but it cannot repair the holes at the heart of society. El Sistema has fostered a seductive illusion that music is an all-purpose solution. But music has its limits and we need to accept them. It cannot cure cancer, relieve poverty or revive a dying city.”
Building A Full-Fledged Hollywood-Style Studio (Complete With Theme Park And Hollywood Sign), From Scratch, In China
When Wanda Studios Qingdao opens in the spring of 2017, “it will be one of the largest and most technologically advanced feature-film-production facilities in the world, encompassing 30 soundstages; an enormous temperature-controlled underwater stage; a green-screen-equipped outdoor stage that’s still larger, at 56,000 square feet; a permanent facsimile of a New York City street; and much more.” (Not to mention the theme park, resort hotel, yacht marina, and hospital.)