The Baffler Magazine, Nov-Dec 2021, No. 60, "The Squandering Earth
by Editor: Jonathon Sturgeon
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The Baffler Foundation; New York, NY, 2021. 1st Edition. Softcover Magazine. New. Editor: Jonathon Sturgeon. "The Baffler Magazine, Nov-Dec 2021, No. 60, 'The Squandering Earth.'" The Baffler Foundation, Inc.; New York, 2021. English language. Softcover perfect-bound magazine. 136 pages. Color illustrations. Text clean. Still in shrink-wrap. Sticker on front of shrink-wrap. New. No ISSN. "IF YOUâRE FEELING FRACKED, maybe itâs time to make the Great Resignation work for you. In August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 4.3 million people left their jobs, the highest quit rate theyâve yet recorded. A March 2021 survey indicated that 41 percent of employees worldwide have considered resigning this year already; another survey, also published in March, reported that more than half of American workers are realizing theyâre burned out on the job. Whether the âpandemic epiphaniesâ of newly existentialist workers will last is debated on television, but we know for sure one of those surveys was published by Microsoft, and the other by the job platform Indeed. At last the cycle of being tired all the time reveals its shape: the exhaustion we feel because of our jobs is being monitored and extracted, as data, by the transnational corporations that monitor and extract our work, which exhausts us.In âThe Squandering Earth,â issue no. 60 of The Baffler, we cast aspersions on the accumulation-crazed multinationals ransacking the planet for profit, making us all feel like used-up bottles of stuff while they amass exponentially more indestructible bottles of stuff. This waste-producing apparatus is vast, Ajay Singh Chaudhary writes in âThe Extractive Circuit,â âthe leaden reality of a global human ecological niche organized for maximal profitabilityâno matter how difficult or costly to maintain.â This circuit, he stresses, âis not a metaphor,â but an accelerating systems-crash that steals time and resources from zones of least resistance, like fragile habitats. One such zone, Zachariah Webb writes in âDead Pools,â is the state of Arizona, which has achieved almost total dehydration in a global scheme with no prospects for reform. Another is Sudan, where drought, famine, and civil war project a future of stark nomadism, Jérôme Tubiana reports. And as Bryce Covert explains in her survey of the United Statesâ frayed infrastructure for distributing pandemic relief, stopping this systems-crash will require a jolt to our political imagination.At other nodes along the circuit: Dave Denison follows the trail of his own recycling to the overwhelming realization that single-use plastic production will soon swamp the habitable world; Allyson Paty documents her waste stream against the âenvironmental ouroborosâ of liberal individualist ethics; and Samuel Stein surveys the ultra-skinny high-rises and other towers of waste that now sprawl upward in our cities like accusing fingers pointed at god.In conditions of total extraction, culture is mined like anything else. Rich Woodall writes accordingly about copyright in a music industry dominated by three major labels, and other investment groups, that strip catalogs and even songs themselves for sellable parts. In âBeckett on the Richter Scale,â Marco Roth looks at the work of Evan Dara, an anonymous novelist whose intensifying fantasies of disaster seem to draw mysteriously from disparate communities. And, mercifully, J.W. McCormackâs âMr. Garbageâ finds hope in the fiction of Donald Barthelme, whose âjunkman aesthetic allowed him to regulate the temperature in his model worlds and reframe their parameters accordingly.â Node, zone, worker, consumer, or resource: weâll have to do some regulating to overcome this fatigue and ask, as Chaudhary does, âHow has this level of degradation become so acceptable?â
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- The Baffler Magazine, Nov-Dec 2021, No. 60, "The Squandering Earth
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- Editor: Jonathon Sturgeon
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- THE BAFFLER, STURGEON, SQUANDERING EARTH, NOV, DEC, 60, THOMAS FRANK, 2021, JULY, AUGUST, 58, MAGAZINE
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The dealer is an alum of the Rare Book School and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar.
I started in the trade at the Wexner Center for the Arts bookstore, and previously worked for the Columbus Metropolitan Libraries, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art's Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
Besides selling books, I proofread them for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. jamespayne.info.
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