{"id":105976,"date":"2016-12-20T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=105976"},"modified":"2016-12-20T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:09:37","slug":"i-got-you-this-dead-bird-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/i-got-you-this-dead-bird-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I Got You This Dead Bird, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmasgreeting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-105977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmasgreeting.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmasgreeting.jpg 1383w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmasgreeting-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmasgreeting-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmasgreeting-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Americans just <em>hate <\/em>it when you sleep on the job. I learned this the hard way when I installed a Murphy bed in my last office. Boy, was the management steamed! I thought their issue was that I was spending too much time alone\u2014not being a team player and such\u2014so I invited my colleagues to watch me sleep, or even to join me in the Murphy bed if they were so inclined. (It was a queen.) But that only made them fire me! Imagine the joy, then, with which I greeted Bryant Rousseau\u2019s reporting from Japan, where napping in public is not just allowed, but <em>celebrated<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/16\/world\/what-in-the-world\/japan-inemuri-public-sleeping.html\">The word for it is <em>inemuri<\/em>. It is often translated as \u2018sleeping on duty,\u2019<\/a> but Dr. Brigitte Steger, a senior lecturer in Japanese studies at Downing College, Cambridge, who has written\u00a0a book on the topic, says it would be more accurate to render it as \u2018sleeping while present\u2019 \u2026 Sleeping in social situations can even enhance your reputation. Dr. Steger recalled a group dinner at a restaurant where the male guest of a female colleague fell asleep at the table. The other guests complimented his \u2018gentlemanly behavior\u2019\u2014that he chose to stay present and sleep, rather than excuse himself.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Not dissimilarly, I went through a phrase where the only Christmas gifts I could think to give were dead birds. Not birds of prey or anything gauche like that\u2014just cute, deceased little songbirds, sometimes on dry ice, wrapped in little parcels of tissue and tied with twine. Well, people weren\u2019t having it. My best friend spit in my face. Even my mom asked if I kept the receipt. I was born in the wrong time, I guess, because in Victorian England, people just loved dead birds for the holidays. Allison Meier writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/344920\/why-are-there-dead-birds-on-victorian-xmas-cards-in-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\">The image of a dead bird in the snow<\/a>\u00a0is similar to the popular \u2018Babe in the Woods\u2019 motif of children who are in their mortal sleep in the forest, and may have likewise been a\u00a0call to empathy\u00a0for the less fortunate.\u00a0John Grossman, author of\u00a0<em>Christmas Curiosities<\/em>,\u00a0told Tea Tree Library\u00a0that the cards were \u2018bound to elicit Victorian sympathy and may reference common stories of poor children freezing to death at Christmas\u2019\u00a0\u2026 Hunter Oatman-Stanford at\u00a0Collectors Weekly\u00a0noted that the birds are often robins and wrens, and that \u2018killing a wren or robin was once a good-luck ritual performed in late December.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s oddly fitting that Marshall McLuhan, who staked his career on a prescient, almost shamanistic understanding of the power of media, rose to fame by using one of the most sophisticated tools the media has ever invented: the publicity campaign. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/become-famous-media-scholar-case-marshall-mcluhan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Like most celebrity ascensions, McLuhan\u2019s was the product of a conscious publicity campaign<\/a> \u2026 [His] break came in early 1965, when a pair of San Francisco prospectors\u2014one, Gerald Feigen, a physician, the other, Howard Gossage, an ad-agency executive\u2014\u2018discovered\u2019 McLuhan \u2026 Together they plotted a full-fledged publicity rollout, starting with cocktail parties in New York City with media and publishing figures. The pair staged a weeklong \u2018McLuhan Festival\u2019 that summer, with nightly parties and a rotating cast of ad executives, newspaper editors, mayoral aides, and business leaders in attendance \u2026 McLuhan\u2019s second, posthumous run of celebrity, which picked up in the 1990s, suggests a kind of sleeper effect, whereby the fame penalty recedes. Soon enough McLuhan\u2019s slogans resurfaced as ad copy, and academic journals published, with exegetical care, special issues on his works. McLuhan conferences were organized, an off-Broadway show (<em>The Medium<\/em>) was staged in 1994, and knowing allusions reappeared in popular culture, including an early <em>Sopranos<\/em> Ted Turner,\u00a0<em>Time<\/em>\u2019s 1991 man of the year, articulated what became the new line both inside and outside the academy: \u2018McLuhan was wrong only temporarily.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Stuart Kelly argues that prestige television\u2014specifically <em>Westworld<\/em>\u2014has a better understanding of contemporary conceptions of selfhood than the novel ever could: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2016\/dec\/20\/does-westworld-tell-a-truer-story-than-a-novel-can\" target=\"_blank\">Literature is one of our first attempts at simulating reality, and its characters offer necessarily simplified versions of the messy business of being a human<\/a>. Philosophers, psychoanalysts and neuroscientists have all called into question these notions that we cherish\u2014will, self, choice, desire, recollection\u2014but the novel has failed to keep up with these insights \u2026 Lifelikeness is a cardinal virtue of the novel, according to the great critic James Wood. But what if the \u2018hosts,\u2019 by imitating humanity, become human-esque? Or better than humans? \u2026 [<em>Westworld<\/em>] imagines consciousness as virus, glitch as evolution \u2026 That\u2019s why <em>Westworld <\/em>seems to be the best example of what I\u2019ll call \u2018the post-human novel.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To be serious for a moment: nine activists leaving an event at New York\u2019s Artist Space this weekend were attacked by Trump supporters. Those who have been looking the other way or hoping naively that political tensions\u00a0wouldn\u2019t breech\u00a0the confines of the New York arts scene\u2014pay attention: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artforum.com\/news\/id=65535\" target=\"_blank\">According to witnesses, the attackers collectively chanted \u2018Trump, Trump, Trump\u2019 and \u2018blue lives matter\u2019 then proceeded to verbally and physically assault the members of the activist groups, calling them \u2018faggots\u2019<\/a> \u2026 The men followed them and then \u2018started swinging.\u2019 [A victim of the attack]\u00a0said, \u2018We spent fifteen minutes trying to defuse [the situation]. They were adamant they were Trump supporters \u2026 and they made it clear where they stood.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: morbid Victorian Christmas cards, napping on the job, Westworld as literature, and 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