Man Is The Media.
Only $10.5 Billion to Save the Book Industry: Lay Off 137,500 American Writers
According to Paul Greenberg in New York TImes, it could cost as little as $10.5 billion to solve the writing crisis. “According to the industry tracker Bowker, about 275,000 new titles and editions are published in the United States each year. Let’s say we want to eliminate half of them. Assuming it takes about two [...]
This Sunday: Political cinema + art books
The recent release of RAF-member Birgitte Mohnhaupt and the destruction of the ‘Ungdomshuset’ (formerly hotbed for alternative culture and street-level activism) calls for political flashback … according to these guys, anyway: STATION 16, a newly formed Copenhagen group dedicated to the exhibition of avant-garde, experimental and underground cinema, takes this opportunity with it’s debut screening [...]