{"id":106032,"date":"2016-12-21T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106032"},"modified":"2016-12-21T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:25:13","slug":"how-to-build-your-evil-headquarters-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/21\/how-to-build-your-evil-headquarters-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Build Your Evil Headquarters, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_106033\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the_pyramids_at_college_park_indianapolis_indiana_usa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106033\" class=\"wp-image-106033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the_pyramids_at_college_park_indianapolis_indiana_usa.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the_pyramids_at_college_park_indianapolis_indiana_usa.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the_pyramids_at_college_park_indianapolis_indiana_usa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the_pyramids_at_college_park_indianapolis_indiana_usa-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-106033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pyramids, in Indianapolis. Photo: jikatu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Science fiction\u2019s evil megacorporations all seem to hire the same architect\u2014it\u2019s as if they\u2019re so focused on turning the world into a bleak, ashen dystopia that they don\u2019t even have the time to design a truly unique headquarters. Or maybe they just know what they like. Kate Wagner looks at a few examples: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/article\/architecture-evil-dystopian-megacorps-speculative-fiction\/\">What\u2019s fascinating about the evil megacorporation is that its architectural aesthetic has remained virtually unchanged throughout its\u00a0history<\/a>: brooding Late Modernist (AKA High-tech or Structural Expressionist) buildings have become a well-worn trope, reaching a peak during the sci-fi smorgasbord of the eighties \u2026 Modern architecture from its inception has always been associated with the coming of the machine. The movement\u2019s founders in Europe believed that the architecture of the time laid in the hands of industry\u2014factories, concrete silos, and other functional, rational buildings. New technology like steel and reinforced concrete enabled architects to come up with dramatic and powerful forms.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Thinking of how best to fight Trumpism, Jedediah Purdy takes some cues from Thoreau, of all people: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/online-only\/what-i-had-lost-was-a-country\/\">Thoreau took solitude as well as social life with utter seriousness because he believed both were at once necessary and impossible<\/a>. Alone, you were in the company of received ideas, condescending self-judgment, anxiety that you were not doing your part; in company, you were alone in your strange mind\u2014and everyone\u2019s mind\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>strange\u2014throwing words like stones into the pools of other people\u2019s minds, disturbing their smooth surfaces \u2026 Thoreau\u2019s responses to nature are not na\u00efve, but they do not reject what is alive and instructive in the na\u00efve response. We might find, in the next four years, that we need to recapture the living kernel in those ideas that seem to be clich\u00e9d husks. In my world of academic lawyers, only schemers even pretend to believe that the Constitution simply means what it says, or that we could stand to live by it if it did. But it will soon be time to defend constitutional limits on the President\u2019s power, or limits on the power of the police, as if they were divine commandments (as if there were divine commandments).\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sure, at the moment, the Internet is a fetid swamp of hate and distortion. But don\u2019t get nostalgic. The Internet of the past wasn\u2019t exactly swarming with model citizens, either. Look at MyDeathSpace, a morbid mid-2000s era MySpace rip-off that catalogs young people who have died unexpectedly. Its founder hopes it will \u201cteach teens a lesson\u201d about risky behavior, but really it\u2019s just a place to gawk and swap jokes at the expense of the dead. And even though it\u2019s showing its age, the community is still very much alive, as Kristen Martin reports: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/reallifemag.com\/memetic-mori\/\">Listing a cause of death is a requirement\u2014users won\u2019t draw up an article featuring, say, a Facebook user\u2019s passing until they have discerned how that person died<\/a> \u2026 The callousness might spring from a more neutral urge: If you can figure out how a Facebook user died, maybe you can better understand your own relationship with death \u2026 The \u2018truth\u2019 that MyDeathSpace users are seeking to confirm is one in which death is neither wholly random nor taboo; a \u2018truth\u2019 to match an understanding they can live with. MyDeathSpace both quantifies and qualifies death, in a way that death, in reality, resists.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Oh, and fake news\u2014that\u2019s nothing new, either. People have been making shit up since they had the presses to print it on. Jacob Soll writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/12\/fake-news-history-long-violent-214535\">The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was one of the more complex news stories of all time, with the church and many European authorities blaming the natural disaster on divine retribution against sinners<\/a>. An entire genre of fake news pamphlets (<em>rela\u00e7\u00f5es de sucessos<\/em>) emerged in Portugal, claiming that some survivors owed their lives to an apparition of the Virgin Mary. These religiously inspired accounts of the earthquake sparked the famed Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire to attack religious explanations of natural events, and also made Voltaire into an activist against fake religious news.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Nepal, a magazine called <em>Himal Southasian<\/em> faces a threat from state power: \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-slow-strangulation-of-a-south-asian-magazine?intcid=mod-latest\">Himal Southasian\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-slow-strangulation-of-a-south-asian-magazine?intcid=mod-latest\">has covered the region with imagination and rigor, seeking contributions from academics and intellectuals across South Asia\u00a0and in the diaspora, and paying special attention to events that have gone overlooked in the international press<\/a> \u2026 Yet, after operating successfully in Nepal for more than a quarter century,\u00a0<em>Himal\u00a0<\/em>has in the past six months experienced what\u00a0its editor, Aunohita Mojumdar, calls a<em>\u00a0<\/em>\u2018strangulation by bureaucracy\u2019 \u2026 What will be,\u00a0for now,\u00a0<em>Himal\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>final issue, titled \u2018Fact and Fiction,\u2019 is\u00a0devoted to chronicling attacks on freedom of expression across the region. In a defiant closing note, Mojumdar writes, \u2018The very reasons that have contributed to the crisis at\u00a0<em>Himal\u00a0<\/em>make it imperative that it should survive.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: evil megacorporations, Thoreau v. 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