{"id":105067,"date":"2016-11-22T09:34:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=105067"},"modified":"2016-11-22T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:35:38","slug":"dont-really-know-anything-anything-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/22\/dont-really-know-anything-anything-news\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don\u2019t Really Know Anything About Anything, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105070\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/almeida_junior_-_moca_com_livro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105070\" class=\"wp-image-105070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/almeida_junior_-_moca_com_livro.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jos\u00e9 Ferraz de Almeida J\u00fanior, <i>Girl with a Book<\/i>, ca. 1875.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>William Trevor, an Irish writer who saw the short-story form as a chance to perfect \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2442\/the-art-of-fiction-no-108-william-trevor\" target=\"_blank\">the art of the glimpse<\/a>,\u201d has died at eighty-eight. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/21\/books\/william-trevor-dead.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">His plots often unfolded in Irish or English villages whose inhabitants, most of them hanging on to the bottom rung of the lower middle class, waged unequal battle with capricious fate<\/a>. In \u2018The Ballroom of Romance,\u2019 one of his most famous stories, a young woman caring for her crippled father looks for love in a dance hall but settles, week after week, for a few drunken kisses from a local bachelor. The hero of \u2018The Day We Got Drunk on Cake\u2019\u00a0repeatedly phones a young woman he admires in between drinking sessions at a series of pubs. The relationship deepens and, during a final call in the wee hours, takes a sudden, unexpected turn.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Let\u2019s put some things in perspective about human knowledge. Sure, there are plenty of things we know as facts (New York thin crust is superior to Chicago deep dish) and others we can be basically sure of (Donald Trump prowls the outer boroughs at night in a latex superhero costume, torturing stray cats and hyperventilating into a paper bag), but many <em>even more basic matters <\/em>remain mysterious to us. Consciousness, for instance. We don\u2019t know shit about consciousness. In a new series, Tim Parks asks the philosopher Riccardo Manzotti to take him into the riddle: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/11\/21\/what-is-thinking-how-define-consciousness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why doesn\u2019t our behavior simply happen, taking its course the way the planets follow their orbits<\/a>? We don\u2019t know. Just as cosmologists don\u2019t know what dark matter is. All we know is that there is something that doesn\u2019t add up and very likely points to some profound error in our assumptions about reality \u2026 The truth is that we just don\u2019t know a priori the nature of physical reality. This is a point Bertrand Russell made very strongly back in the 1920s. The more we investigate the physical, the more varied and complex it appears.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manzotti is right\u2014humankind still knows hardly a thing about dark matter, too. In fact, it\u2019s apparently possible that entire alien civilizations might exist in dark matter, manipulating our very physics just for kicks. Caleb Scharf writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/42\/fakes\/is-physical-law-an-alien-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\">If you\u2019re a civilization that has learned how to encode living systems in different substrates, all you need to do is build a normal-matter-to-dark-matter data-transfer system: a dark-matter 3-D printer<\/a> \u2026 Perhaps the behavior of normal cosmic matter that we attribute to dark matter is brought on by something else altogether: a living state that manipulates luminous matter for its own purposes. Consider that at present we have neither identified the dark-matter particles nor come up with a compelling alternative to our laws of physics that would account for the behavior of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Would an explanation in terms of life be any less plausible than a failure of established laws?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Back in the realm of things we think we know about, there\u2019s Emma Tarlo\u2019s <em>Entanglement<\/em>, a new history of human hair that calls into question our rationality: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/hair-raising\/\" target=\"_blank\">In an excellent chapter on the practices of Haredi Jewish women, Tarlo digs deep into a subject that often seems unfathomable to outsiders: the requirement that married women, when out in public, wear a wig<\/a> \u2026 Twelve years ago, the\u00a0<em>sheitels\u00a0<\/em>of pious north London, Brooklyn, and Jerusalem were responsible for disrupting the global hair industry. In 2004, the ninety-four-year-old Rabbi Elyashiv decreed that the wigs worn by married women were unclean and should be destroyed immediately. His objection lay in the fact that the Indian hair from which the\u00a0<em>sheitels <\/em>were made came from Hindu temples in southern India where pilgrims are tonsured before worship. This, the rabbi ruled, made the hair \u2018idolatrous.\u2019 The result was hysterical high feeling as distraught Orthodox women in headscarves and swimming caps threw their costly and carefully curated\u00a0<em>sheitels <\/em>onto a series of pyres. One of Tarlo\u2019s sources reckons that a billion dollars\u2019 worth of human hair went up in smoke.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tara Isabella Burton defends the seeming artificiality of the self-branding social-media era: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/reallifemag.com\/cult-of-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">As the twentieth-century philosopher Paul Ricoeur points out, self, self-conception, and action are not so easily divorced from one another<\/a>. The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves\u2014including through public performance in the social sphere\u2014also come to govern our actions \u2026 Playing a public role on social media, presenting ourselves as a \u2018character\u2019 (the \u2018fun one,\u2019 the workaholic, the gleeful bohemian, the \u2018good friend,\u2019 the liberal do-gooder, and so forth), is to commit to being that person in the social sphere: to enter into an informal contract with those that witness us to \u2018be that person.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Trevor, an Irish writer who saw the short-story form as a chance to perfect \u201cthe art of the glimpse,\u201d has died at eighty-eight. \u201cHis plots often unfolded in Irish or English villages whose inhabitants, most of them hanging on to the bottom rung of the lower middle class, waged unequal battle with capricious fate. 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