{"id":102429,"date":"2016-09-08T09:20:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=102429"},"modified":"2016-09-08T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:33:00","slug":"started-algae-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/08\/started-algae-news\/","title":{"rendered":"It All Started with Algae, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/frankenstein_engraved.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/frankenstein_engraved.jpg\" alt=\"frankenstein_engraved\" width=\"600\" height=\"630\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I know you, reader, you were about to throw your hands up, abandon your career, move to a small town, and eke out a living as a substitute teacher. But wait! Nicholson Baker spent the first half of 2014 as a sub in Maine, and he wrote everything down, and the outlook is grim. Here\u2019s what he took away from his time in the trenches of our public-education system: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/11\/magazine\/fortress-of-tedium-what-i-learned-as-a-substitute-teacher.html\" target=\"_blank\">In my experience, every high-school subject, no matter how worthy and jazzy and thought-\u00adprovoking it may have seemed to an earnest Common Corer, is stuffed into the curricular Veg-\u00adO-\u00adMatic, and out comes a nasty packet with grading rubrics on the back<\/a>. On the first page, usually, there are numbered \u2018learning targets,\u2019 and inside, inevitably, a list of specialized vocabulary words to master. In English it\u2019s\u00a0<em>unreliable narrator<\/em>, or\u00a0<em>ethos<\/em>, or <em>metonymy<\/em>, or\u00a0<em>thesis sentence<\/em>. This is all fluff knowledge, meta-\u00adknowledge. In math, kids must memorize words like\u00a0<em>apothem\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Cartesian coordinate<\/em>; in science they chant\u00a0<em>domain! kingdom! phylum! class!<\/em>, etc., and\u00a0<em>meiosis<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>allele<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>daughter cell\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>third-class lever<\/em>\u00a0and the whole Tinkertoy edifice of terms that acts to draw people away from the freshness and surprise and fantastic interfused complexity of the world and darkens our brains with shadowy taxonomic abstractions.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Was <em>Frankenstein <\/em>inspired by algae, that most unsung of photosynthetic organisms? Maybe\u2014it depends on what Mary Shelley was thinking when she wrote about vermicelli. Ryan Feigenbaum writes: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2016\/09\/07\/visions-of-algae-in-eighteenth-century-botany\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shelley recounted listening to a conversation between her husband and Lord Byron; at one point, one of them had inquired into the principle of life and asked whether it could ever be discovered and expressed<\/a>. Shelley continued, \u2018They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of has having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.\u2019 It was but a short distance for Shelley to consider the possibility that various once-living body parts could be reassembled into an amalgamous creature, then given life anew.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in costly reminders of failure: about ten years ago, the world learned that Napoleon was an aborted novelist, having written a pretty formulaic little novella called <em>Clisson et Eug\u00e9nie<\/em>. If you want to own a piece of history\u2014and to remember for the rest of your days that even military heroes totally blow it from time to time\u2014you can buy Napoleon\u2019s manuscript at auction. It\u2019s expected to go for $250,000. And here\u2019s what you\u2019ll find: \u201c<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/sep\/07\/napoleon-bonaparte-failed-novelist-manuscript-goes-to-auction?CMP=twt_a-culture_b-gdnculture\">Clisson et Eug\u00e9nie <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/sep\/07\/napoleon-bonaparte-failed-novelist-manuscript-goes-to-auction?CMP=twt_a-culture_b-gdnculture\" target=\"_blank\">is unabashedly autobiographical. Penned in the autumn of 1795, while Napoleon was still rising in the ranks of the French army, the novel centers around an officer named Clisson, \u2018a man of fervent imagination, with his blazing heart, his uncompromising intellect and his cool head.\u2019<\/a> The war-weary Clisson decides to quit his position and enjoy the spa baths of central France. There he meets two young women, Am\u00e9lie and Eug\u00e9nie, and falls desperately (and tragically) in love with Eug\u00e9nie. While tender, this romance is also quite tame. The closest the author comes to sex may be: \u2018Their hearts fused \u2026 the most exquisite voluptuousness flooded the hearts of the two enraptured lovers.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s more or less accepted, especially outside of America, that America loves to dominate. It\u2019s just, like, our <em>thing<\/em>. And yet the critics who hold us accountable for our empire building never seem to critique our literature. Jonathon Sturgeon wonders if American fiction is helplessly beholden to individualism and imperialism: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thebaffler.com\/salvos\/foer-franzen-sturgeon\" target=\"_blank\">Today, if a novel is accepted into the American canon, it is as a masterpiece of individualism that subsumes material and social being into the spirit of a lone genius<\/a>. If a social world is present in a novel of repute, our critics gobble it up and excrete it as imagination. In the early twenty-first century, realism has come to be synonymous, in the blinkered American critical consensus, with a curiously antisocial novel. It never occurs to critics that realism could only\u00a0<em>seem <\/em>real because of the dilapidation of collective dreams. Nor do critics worry that the \u2018social issues\u2019 presented in our novels rarely attain the complexity of cable television. Or that a novel genuinely concerned with social life (or even the social role of a single person) could itself, against this backdrop, be idiosyncratic. It\u2019s sad, in other words, that the novels of Jonathan Franzen register to most as sociopolitical literature.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Alan Moore elevated the graphic novel with books like <em>V for Vendetta <\/em>and <em>Watchmen<\/em>\u2014then Hollywood got ahold of his work and ran it through the movie-magic meat grinder, sloughing off all his imagination and creativity. So in his new book, <em>Jerusalem<\/em>, Alan Moore is saying fuck all that: \u201c\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/persons-of-interest\/a-party-in-a-lunatic-asylum?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">The reason I liked comics was that nobody else did, because it was completely unsupervised,\u2019 he said earlier this summer<\/a> \u2026 Now that revisionist interpretations of the superhero genre are the Hollywood norm (in large part thanks to Moore), he has abandoned the form. \u2018I would rather do things that nobody wants,\u2019 he said, of his decision\u00a0to spend the past decade on a metaphysical, postmodern novel. \u2018It\u2019s the most interesting thing to do, to find the areas of culture that are not being paid attention to.\u2019 Characteristically, with <em>Jerusalem<\/em>, he has refused any editorial intervention. \u2018What I wanted was to do something that was so completely unmediated and undiluted. 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