{"id":102753,"date":"2016-09-16T08:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=102753"},"modified":"2016-09-16T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:21:40","slug":"dont-jerk-unless-really-cant-help-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/dont-jerk-unless-really-cant-help-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be a Jerk (Unless You Really Can\u2019t Help It), and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_102754\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screen-shot-2016-09-16-at-8.16.50-am.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102754\" class=\"wp-image-102754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screen-shot-2016-09-16-at-8.16.50-am.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-102754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from PBS\u2019s <em>Blank on Blank<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Before YouTube, people were convinced that all poets were boring, lifeless people who made little ink marks on pages\u2014very sparingly, at that. Fortunately, there\u2019s online video, and there\u2019s never been a better time to witness poets at their mediagenic best. Austin Allen writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/features\/articles\/detail\/90711\">However scruffy by academic standards, online video libraries have dredged some remarkable treasures from obscurity<\/a>. Even as they change the way new poets present their work, they\u2019re reshaping our relationship to the history of the craft. \u2018Read at random,\u2019\u00a0Randall Jarrell\u00a0advised, and now poetry lovers can\u00a0<em>view<\/em>\u00a0at random too, free-associating our way through the most precious archival footage. It\u2019s a new mode of research, a conjuring of spirits to our private theaters, where at a moment\u2019s notice we can evaluate\u2014or just savor\u2014records that scholars a generation ago would have killed for \u2026 What videos give poetry fans above all are performances: windows onto authors\u2019 conceptions of pieces we\u2019ve carried in our own heads; cadences we never detected on the page; obscure material, curiosities, \u2018extras.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Honest question: Are you a jerk? No, silly, not a <em>soda\u00a0<\/em>jerk\u2014a\u00a0<em>jerk\u00a0<\/em>jerk! An asswipe!\u00a0You probably think you\u2019re not\u2014that\u2019s so like you\u2014but maybe, giving you the benefit of the doubt, you\u2019ve never had a reliable, fail-safe way to measure your own jerk quotient. Eric Schwitzgebel is here to help, with science: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/40\/learning\/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-jerk\" target=\"_blank\">The first step to the solution is to nail down more clearly what it means to be a jerk<\/a>. I submit that jerkitude should be accepted as a category worthy of scientific study in its own right. The word <em>jerk<\/em> is apt and useful. It captures a very real phenomenon that no other concept in psychology quite does. Jerks are people who culpably fail to appreciate the perspectives of the people around them, treating others as tools to be manipulated or fools to be dealt with, rather than as moral and epistemic peers. To be a jerk is to be ignorant in a certain way\u2014ignorant of the value of others, ignorant of the merit of their ideas and plans, dismissive of their desires and beliefs, unforgiving of their perceived inferiority. The nugget of folk wisdom in calling certain people jerks is to highlight this particular species of deficiency.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prescience\u2014you gotta love it! PBS\u2019s animated <em>Blank on Blank<\/em> series reminds us that Aldous Huxley was, all the way back in 1958, predicting some very advanced shit about the rise of technology in our culture: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/09\/an-animated-aldous-huxley-identifies-the-dystopian-threats-to-our-freedom-1958.html\" target=\"_blank\">Well another force which I think is very strongly operative in this country is the force of what may be called of overorganization<\/a> \u2026 As technology becomes more and more complicated, it becomes necessary to have more and more elaborate organizations, more hierarchical organizations, and incidentally the advance of technology is being accompanied by an advance in the science of organization. It\u2019s now possible to make organizations on a larger scale than it was ever possible before, and so that you have more and more people living their lives out as subordinates in these hierarchical systems controlled by bureaucracy, either the bureaucracies of big businesses or the bureaucracies of big government.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s important to be courteous, even after you\u2019re dead. A truly considerate person worries not just about how her death will affect her friends and family but about how her decomposing body will affect all of humankind for centuries down the line. That\u2019s why we should go green when we die: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/322389\/a-burial-suit-of-mushrooms-that-consume-your-remains\/\" target=\"_blank\">The artist\u00a0Jae Rhim Lee\u00a0envisions a\u00a0pajamas-like burial outfit that would not only encourage bodily\u00a0deterioration<\/a>, but would use mushrooms and other microorganisms to remediate any environmental toxins in the flesh, such as from\u00a0pesticides\u00a0or\u00a0pollution \u2026 Lee is among a growing movement\u00a0actively examining ways in which burial, our final personal gesture for our lives, can be greener.\u00a0Embalming involves toxic chemicals such as formaldehyde, which can seep into\u00a0groundwater; cremation can release these chemicals into the air,\u00a0and also\u00a0uses a high amount of energy. Architect Katrina Spade recently proposed\u00a0the Urban Death Project, involving specially designed towers where human remains\u00a0could naturally decompose and be transformed into rich soil.\u00a0The\u00a0Death Lab at Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation\u00a0imagined\u00a0using biomass\u00a0to power cemetery lights\u00a0as an ephemeral tribute. And\u00a0Pia Interlandi\u2019s\u00a0Garments for the Grave\u00a0are designed\u00a0to decompose along with the bodies.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>New York City recently installed Wi-Fi kiosks on sidewalks, intended to democratize Internet access for the citizenry. Shocker: people just watched a bunch of porn on them. And the <em>Times <\/em>has helpfully shown us that this isn\u2019t the first time the city has witnessed an ambitious failure: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/09\/15\/nyregion\/failed-new-york-schemes.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">On the first day of summer in 2005, Snapple sought to break a Guinness World Record by erecting a 25-foot, 35,000-pound tower of flavored ice in Union Square<\/a>. The kiwi-strawberry pillar was to be the world\u2019s largest Popsicle. If only the sun had cooperated. The massive frozen block, shipped from New Jersey, had barely been raised before it started to liquefy into a pink ooze that spilled out onto the street. The police closed off the surrounding thoroughfares. The Fire Department arrived to hose away the sticky goo.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before YouTube, people were convinced that all poets were boring, lifeless people who made little ink marks on pages\u2014very sparingly, at that. Fortunately, there\u2019s online video, and there\u2019s never been a better time to witness poets at their mediagenic best. 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