{"id":103164,"date":"2016-09-28T09:20:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T13:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=103164"},"modified":"2016-09-28T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:28:28","slug":"will-no-birthday-celebrations-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/will-no-birthday-celebrations-news\/","title":{"rendered":"There Will Be No More Birthday Celebrations, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103167\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tiger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103167\" class=\"wp-image-103167 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tiger.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The insignia of a master.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Davis was an artist, and the irate company-wide memorandum was his canvas. Few in the history of humankind have recognized the savage beauty of this lowliest of media. But Davis\u2014the erstwhile head of Tiger Oil Company, and now dead at eighty-five\u2014shattered the limits of the form with routine ease, showing us just how big an asshole one man could be to his employees. Consider his memos a spin-off of the Theater of Cruelty: \u201c \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/26\/business\/edward-davis-worlds-grumpiest-boss-dies-at-85.html\" target=\"_blank\">There will be no more birthday celebrations, birthday cakes, levity or celebrations of any kind within the office<\/a>,\u2019 the boss wrote on Feb. 8, 1978. \u2018This is a business office. If you have to celebrate, do it after office hours on your own time.\u2019 \u2026 \u2018Do not speak to me when you see me,\u2019 the man had ordered in a memo the month before. \u2018If I want to speak to you, I will do so. I want to save my throat. I don\u2019t want to ruin it by saying hello to all of you.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s hard enough to get a human being to pay to read your book. Now\u00a0robots\u00a0are refusing to pony up, too. Google has just \u201cfed\u201d some eleven thousand books to its artificial intelligence, hoping to teach it how to talk like a real boy. But even though they\u2019re rolling in the dough, Google didn\u2019t pay any of the authors of these books, Richard Lea writes: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/sep\/28\/google-swallows-11000-novels-to-improve-ais-conversation\" target=\"_blank\">After feeding these books into a neural network, the system was able to generate fluent, natural-sounding sentences<\/a>. According to a Google spokesman\u2014who didn\u2019t want to be named\u2014products such as the Google app will be \u2018much more useful if they can capture the nuance of language better\u2019 \u2026 \u2018The research in question uses these novels for the exact purpose intended by their authors\u2014to be read,\u2019 [Authors Guild executive director Mary Rasenberger] argues. \u2018It shouldn\u2019t matter whether it\u2019s a machine or a human doing the copying and reading, especially when behind the machine stands a multibillion dollar corporation which has time and again bent over backwards devising ways to monetize creative content without compensating the creators of that content.\u2019 \u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A quick survey of the art inspired by the present presidential election reveals a stirring diversity of expression, most of it about Donald Trump\u2019s various and sundry moral failures and complete soullessness: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2016\/09\/political-art?fsrc=scn\/tw\/te\/bl\/ed\/politicalartdonaldtrumpandhillaryclintontheunlikelymuses\" target=\"_blank\">There\u2019s everything from \u2018DonaldTrumpMakesMeWannaSmokeCrack,\u2019 a song by Ledinsky, a Swedish musical artist, to Sarah Levy\u2019s menstrual blood portrait of the candidate<\/a> \u2026 Mark Wagner\u2019s collage of Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton, made entirely of banknotes (\u2018<small>HILLARY BILLARY VS. DOLLAR DONALD<\/small>\u2019), offers a strong statement on the capitalism entwined with elections \u2026 A\u00a0mural created by Lushsux \u2026 depicts Mrs Clinton wearing a revealing bathing suit with $100 bills stuck in it. When the artist was ordered to remove it, he painted over it so that the candidate was wearing a black niqab.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you\u2019re like me, the only thing stopping you from seeing Shakespeare\u2019s history plays is their intertextual cross talk\u2014you can\u2019t really understand one without taking in the whole bunch, so why bother? No more excuses, though. Gary Wills explains, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/25\/barbara-gaines-henry-vi-richard-iii-gulping-down-shakespeare\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Chicago Shakespeare Theater has tried to solve this problem by showing three plays in a single day (running six hours with a dinner break, the procedure followed for some lengthy Wagner operas)<\/a> \u2026 The second gulp, \u201cCivil Strife,\u201d comes now to open the Fall season, presenting\u00a0<em>Henry VI,\u00a0<\/em>Parts Two and Three, and the ever-popular\u00a0<em>Richard III<\/em> \u2026 Barbara Gaines, the founding director of the Chicago company and the primary force behind the series, is a pacifist, so she thinks the deep futility of war is the most important (and relevant) aspect of these plays. She is right to find in Shakespeare an understanding that war poisons all social relationships. The three parts of <em>Henry VI<\/em> find multiple ways to emphasize this point. These early works are still influenced by the medieval morality plays and by festival pageants as living traditions. They can be as didactic as such ethical allegories.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Good news: you can now listen to what\u2019s widely believed to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/you-can-now-listen-to-the-first-computergenerated-music-ever?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=atlas-page\" target=\"_blank\">the earliest computer-generated music ever<\/a>. Bad news: it\u2019s a rendition of \u201cGod Save the Queen,\u201d and it sounds like \u201celectronic bagpipes.\u201d The recording dates to 1951, and Turing had an appropriately British reaction to his creation: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/you-can-now-listen-to-the-first-computergenerated-music-ever?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=atlas-page\" target=\"_blank\">Turing\u2019s original response upon hearing the music, according to another computer scientist from his era was stoic. \u2018Good show,\u2019 he remarked<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Davis was an artist, and the irate company-wide memorandum was his canvas. Few in the history of humankind have recognized the savage beauty of this lowliest of media. 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