{"id":110445,"date":"2017-05-02T09:16:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=110445"},"modified":"2017-05-02T10:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T14:34:38","slug":"i-see-you-in-your-car-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/02\/i-see-you-in-your-car-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I See You in Your Car, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110446\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mikemandelcars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110446\" class=\"wp-image-110446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mikemandelcars.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mikemandelcars.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mikemandelcars-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mikemandelcars-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mikemandelcars-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Mike Mandel, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s your most embarrassing hobby? Me, I like to take tens of thousands of dollars of photography equipment to a nice, busy intersection\u2014Times Square at rush hour, say\u2014and take intimate close-ups of people in their cars. I know it sounds creepy now, but it didn\u2019t used to be, I promise. The photographer Mike Mandel, for instance, used to do it all the time. But he was nineteen, and he grew up in simpler times, when not everyone with a camera was presumed to be a pervert. In the Los Angeles of the seventies, as he explained to Hattie Crisell, people were more inclined to mug for the camera, though some of them were spooked by it, too: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/26\/t-magazine\/art\/mike-mandel-people-cars-book-sfmoma.html?smid=tw-tmagazine&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">He saw the automobile as an American icon and a home in itself, where people would spend hours of their time<\/a>. Walking to an intersection half a block from his house, he began to take candid photographs of drivers. He used a wide-angle lens, which required him to stand close to the cars. \u2018It wasn\u2019t like I was looking at them from a distance\u2014I wanted them to respond to me in some way,\u2019 he explains. And respond they did: the images show couples grinning at him, children scowling, and one lady flipping a manicured finger. \u2018I think today there might have been a lot more paranoia about being surveilled or something, but in those days it was maybe a more na\u00efve time. For the most part, people thought it was kind of funny, and responded in a jovial way, and I had a lot of fun doing it.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Quick, name one thing that Louise Erdrich will never, ever write about. I bet you said Long Range Acoustic Devices, as any sane person would. But wouldn\u2019t you know it\u2014sign of the times\u2014that\u2019s exactly the topic she\u2019s chosen for a new essay: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.walkerart.org\/visualarts\/2017\/04\/18\/lrad-louise-erdrich-postcommodity-at-documenta-14-nodapl\/\" target=\"_blank\">The\u00a0LRAD, or Long Range Acoustic Device, was first used in 2009 to\u00a0control protesters at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh<\/a>. Since then, it has been purchased by more than\u00a0sixty countries to disperse demonstrators. Originally developed to deter pirates at sea, it\u00a0has been\u00a0notoriously used\u00a0by Japanese whaling fleets against Sea Shepherd Conservation boats and helicopters. The military-grade device can project voice messages and eardrum rupturing \u2018alarm tones\u2019 over a distance of two\u00a0miles or more via a thirty- to sixty-degree beam \u2026 LRAD\u2019s effect on people is\u00a0devastating. But in a moving act of cultural transformation, the art collective\u00a0Postcommodity\u00a0is using LRAD in a radically different manner. The innocuous-looking gray LRAD speakers are installed in Athens, Greece, and the more softly pitched acoustical beam is directed at the archeological site of Aristotle\u2019s Lyceum. Here, LRAD is used to speak to the origins of Western civilization, not in weaponized tones, but in the language of the human spirit \u2026 People who have been subjected to LRAD report its haunting effect. Sounds traveling via the directed beam create phantom speakers. A voice, for instance, seems to emerge from an invisible person right in front of you. The LRAD sound beam \u2018gets in your head.\u2019 For one hundred days in Aristotle\u2019s Lyceum, ghosts are speaking to ghosts. Restless contemporary spirits are interrogating the dead. Instead of broadcasting military orders, the art installation\u2019s LRAD broadcasts questions.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019ve been throwing around the phrase <em>late capitalism<\/em>\u00a0since I was an undergraduate and had to buy a used copy of Fredric Jameson\u2019s <em>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism<\/em> for my course work. What <em>is <\/em>late capitalism, you ask? Beats me. But it has a nice ring to it, which is why, as Annie Lowrey notes, it\u2019s caught on in a big way, despite its ambiguity: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2017\/05\/late-capitalism\/524943\/\" target=\"_blank\">A German economist named Werner Sombart seems to have been the first to use it around the turn of the twentieth century, with a Marxist theorist and activist named Ernest Mandel popularizing it a half-century later<\/a>. For Mandel, \u2018late capitalism\u2019 denoted the economic period that started with the end of World War II and ended in the early 1970s, a time that saw the rise of multinational corporations, mass communication, and international finance. [William Clare] Roberts said that the term\u2019s current usage departs somewhat from its original meaning. \u2018It\u2019s not this sense that things are getting so bad that the revolution is going to come,\u2019 he told me, \u2018but rather that we see the ligaments of the international system that socialists will be able to seize and use\u2019 \u2026 Nobody I spoke with seemed to care, Jameson included, and the phrase has always had a certain malleability anyway. Sombart\u2019s late capitalism differed from Mandel\u2019s differed from Adorno\u2019s differed from Jameson\u2019s. \u2018Late capitalism\u2019 often seems more like \u2018the latest in capitalism,\u2019 [Mike] Konczal quipped.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cara Giaimo has been to Edward Gorey\u2019s home and witnessed the mountains of stuff: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/edward-gorey-collector?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=atlas-page\" target=\"_blank\">Over the course of his life, the artist gathered, and kept, everything from tarot cards to trilobites to particularly interesting cheese graters<\/a> \u2026 Gorey was the kind of guy who, despite preferring a different brand, owned a full set of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redrosetea.com\/figurines\/shop\" target=\"_blank\">Red Rose Tea figurines<\/a>. His backyard was full of stray cats, and his office was full of orbs\u2014\u2018the ballroom,\u2019 he called it \u2026 Any one of the dozen or so wooden potato mashers he kept might not seem inspiring\u2014but arranged properly, they\u2019re positively arresting, like a gathering of cult elders. Same with the salt and pepper shakers, which, in Gorey\u2019s hands, form a patina-covered city \u2026 Gorey also recorded every episode of his favorite television shows\u2014<em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The X-Files<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I found what I aver to be the strangest entry in Jonathan Demme\u2019s catalog\u2014\u201cA Family Tree,\u201d a one-off sitcom he directed for PBS in 1987. It stars Rosanna Arquette as a naive wannabe astronaut and David Byrne as a cigar-chomping asshole brother-in-law, and it is powerfully bizarre: \u201c <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture-desk\/rabbit-holes\/watch-jonathan-demmes-pitch-black-eighties-sitcom-episode?mbid=social_twitter\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018A Family Tree\u2019 is set in a tilted, theme-park America, populated by stores like the \u2018twenty-four-hour, all-night World of Pies.\u2019<\/a> The nation it depicts isn\u2019t a melting pot or a bastion of family values but a noxious cauldron of clashing agendas, where even under one roof people can only pretend to get along \u2026 Just when you\u2019re prepared to write it off, the show drops in some oblique insight on family life\u2014the way a household can lend order or chaos to one\u2019s appetites and desires; the mannered dance of admission and suppression that lets someone \u2018fit in.\u2019 A stray line of Mrs. Fletcher\u2019s exposes the fault lines of inclusion and exclusion that run beneath every dining room: \u2018We only have seven matching chairs. I wanted to get eight, like normal people, but your father said seven was enough. Now look what happened!\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: picturing people in cars, Louise Erdrich on sound cannons, the origins of the phrase \u201clate capitalism,\u201d and 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