{"id":100942,"date":"2016-07-28T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=100942"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T14:30:33","slug":"tv-is-better-without-people-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/tv-is-better-without-people-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Is Better Without People, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_100943\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/howitsmade.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100943\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100943\" class=\"wp-image-100943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/howitsmade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/howitsmade.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/howitsmade-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from <i>How It\u2019s Made<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>James Alan McPherson, the first black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, has died at seventy-two. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/28\/books\/james-alan-mcpherson-pulitzer-prize-winning-writer-dies-at-72.html?smid=tw-share\" target=\"_blank\">An obituary in the<em>\u00a0New York Times <\/em>quotes his memoir<\/a>, <em>Going Up to Atlanta<\/em>, in which he writes about reading comics at the library in Savannah, Georgia: \u201cAt first the words, without pictures, were a mystery \u2026 But then, suddenly, they all began to march across the page. They gave up their secret meanings, spoke of other worlds, made me know that pain was a part of other peoples\u2019 lives. After a while, I could read faster and faster and faster. After a while, I no longer believed in the world in which I lived.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If we watch TV mainly as an exercise in escapism, then a show devoid of people\u2014or even trace elements of the anthropomorphic\u2014would offer the greatest escape of all. We\u2019re in luck, because there\u2019s <em>How It\u2019s Made<\/em>, a half-hour paean to manufacturing that is, as Alexandra Kleeman writes, closer to full-on post-human than anything on television: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/31\/magazine\/letter-of-recommendation-how-its-made.html\" target=\"_blank\">The show begins to take on a post-\u00adapocalyptic flavor. Its images of manufacturing, you realize, are oddly depopulated<\/a> \u2026 Humans are so scarce, in fact, in this world of throbbing, gleaming machines that when part of one comes into view, the first reaction is not recognition but confusion. \u2018What is that pink thing?\u2019 you might ask yourself, before realizing that it is a hand. Against the swift exactitude and raw power of machinery, the human anatomy\u2014with its soft, squishy shapes and nerve-riddled interior\u2014looks vulnerable at best.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And why not surrender to the conveyer belts? There is much to escape from in this world, especially as an enclave of elite technocrats begin to rebuild it from the ground up, finding ever more novel ways of infantilizing us in their quest to monetize. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/reallifemag.com\/the-babysitters-club\/\" target=\"_blank\">I have been obsessed with figuring out why I hate the Seamless ads in the New York City subway<\/a>,\u201d Jesse Barron writes. \u201c \u2018Welcome to New York,\u2019 one reads. \u2018The role of your mom will be played by us\u2019 \u2026 We\u2019re in the middle of a decade of post-dignity design, whose dogma is cuteness. One explanation would be geopolitical: when the perception of instability is elevated, we seek the safety of naptime\u00a0aesthetics \u2026 We cannot find food on our own, or choose a restaurant, or settle a tiny debt. Where that dependency feels unseemly in the context of independent adult life, it feels appropriate if the user\u2019s position remains childlike, and the childlikeness\u00a0makes sense when you consider that Yelp depends on us to write reviews, and therefore must, like a\u00a0<em>fun\u00a0<\/em>mom, make chores feel fun, too.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe you\u2019d been hoping that literature could offer some solace from all this. Should you attempt to write in your effort to flee from despair, proceed with extreme caution: there is only more suffering ahead. Robert Fay writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2016\/07\/writer-not-nihilism-writing-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">One occasionally glimpses the true existential cost of the so-called \u2018writer\u2019s life,\u2019<\/a> where writing is both an act of self-abnegation\u2014with all of its consequent anxieties\u2014as well as a struggle against such a personalized nihilism \u2026 The daily act of sitting alone for hours and purposely conjuring up emotions and disturbing memories\u2014precisely the kinds of things people use Percocet, vodka, food, and Netflix to forget\u2014serves as the ideal petri dish for anxiety.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Might as well bookend this one with obituaries. 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