{"id":111847,"date":"2017-06-16T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=111847"},"modified":"2017-06-16T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:54:13","slug":"the-silicon-valley-cult-wants-to-eat-your-brain-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/16\/the-silicon-valley-cult-wants-to-eat-your-brain-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silicon Valley Cult Wants to Eat Your Brain, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_111848\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-16-at-10.01.13-am.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111848\" class=\"wp-image-111848 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-16-at-10.01.13-am.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-16-at-10.01.13-am.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-16-at-10.01.13-am-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/screen-shot-2017-06-16-at-10.01.13-am-768x382.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Join us, won\u2019t you?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liberal-arts majors: no matter how bad things get, how valueless your diploma seems to be, or how limited your employment opportunities are, never forget that you can always just pack it in and become a tech bro. It\u2019s true: Silicon Valley, the utopia of our time, will always be there, waiting to suck the marrow from your bones\u00a0in an exchange for a six-figure salary and an \u201coffice culture\u201d that boasts\u00a0free microbrews (and rampant sexism). So don\u2019t get depressed\u2014just join the baddies! In a new review of Scott Hartley\u2019s <em>The Fuzzy and the Techie<\/em>\u2014a book that argues for more liberal-arts values in the tech industry\u2014Tom Slee sees merely another effort to get humanities types to drink the Palo Alto Kool-Aid: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/science-nature\/tom-slee-silicon-valley-liberal-arts-majors-we-want-you#.WUGhqYCs-D4.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Hartley\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Fuzzy and the Techie\u00a0<\/em>(<em>fuzzy<\/em> being a Stanford nickname for humanities and social science students) is a clarion call for you to join the world of digital disruption, innovation, and entrepreneurship<\/a>. The author contends that Silicon Valley needs you if it is to fulfill the next stage of its disruptive vision: your creativity and your skills of \u2018critical thinking, logical argumentation, and complex problem solving\u2019 will make for better technology; your insights into our public institutions and what makes us human will guide technology to build a better world \u2026 But there is a critical failure at the heart of\u00a0<em>The Fuzzy and the Techie:\u00a0<\/em>in his eagerness to portray fuzzies doing well by doing good in the technology industry, Hartley too readily accepts Silicon Valley\u2019s flattering self-descriptions of its values and vision for the world. The positivity of entrepreneurship does not sit comfortably with the skeptical outlook that the liberal arts nurture, and Hartley fully embraces entrepreneurship.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Today\u2019s arts conservators, Jacoba Urist writes, face an unprecedented variety of materials and media\u2014the burden of preserving a piece of art has never been more fraught: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/06\/how-do-you-conserve-art-made-of-bologna-or-bubble-gum-or-soap\/529713\/?utm_source=twb\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s difficult to imagine bologna portraits transcending millennia like a classical marble bust or centuries like a Rembrandt<\/a>. Getting a sculpture made of deli meat to survive the decade could even be a stretch \u2026 Today\u2019s art world is filled with artists using seemingly banal, yet wacky household items<strong>\u2014<\/strong>from a\u00a0miniature Algerian town\u00a0made of couscous to a huge\u00a0Styrofoam cup cloud<strong>\u2014<\/strong>elaborate, significant work that challenges not only what art is, but how exactly, future generations will be able to experience it \u2026 These artists are using products that are meant to decompose rapidly by design. For this segment of twenty-first-century art, museums are consciously conserving art as it\u2019s created. Now, scientists must invent ways to preserve the most tenuous of materials, rather than simply restoring pieces to their original\u2014or most authentic\u2014luster.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jesse McCarthy on Percival Everett, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6948\/percival-everett-the-art-of-fiction-no-235-percival-everett\" target=\"_blank\">who\u2019s interviewed in our new Summer issue<\/a>: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/online-only\/sad-and-boujee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neglect is a fate all experimental writers risk, but if they happen to be black it can seem almost impossible to avoid<\/a>. Everett always intended to chart his own course. He picked the novel up where Ishmael Reed had taken it, but pivoted away from Reed\u2019s zaniness toward a prismatic allegorical realism, a constant reinvention of form designed to grapple with the vertiginous ends of America\u2019s violent and often contradictory racial, economic, geographic, and sexual epistemologies \u2026 Everett\u2019s prose may not have the ionized finish prized by fellow icons of postmodernism and metafiction like Don DeLillo or Tom McCarthy. But he possesses something crucial that neither of them do: an extraordinarily deft capacity for rendering human foibles without contempt\u2014getting characters on the page that are painfully recognizable and yet free of pathology, never reduced to being mere pawns in an overarching authorial conspiracy.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hazel Cills on gore girls, a thriving subculture of women who apply special-effects makeup to themselves on Instagram: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/themuse.jezebel.com\/the-rising-gore-girls-of-instagram-1795652716\" target=\"_blank\">Gory special effects makeup blogging defies everything makeup is \u2018supposed\u2019 to offer women, and what women are \u2018supposed\u2019 to want from makeup, on Instagram and elsewhere in 2017<\/a>. These artists don\u2019t insist on precision or ease for viewers, and looking perfectly feminine or presentable is never the universal goal. In an industry that increasingly demands young women be \u2018well\u2019\u2014which so often means conventionally pretty, gooey, laboriously clean inside and out\u2014it is refreshing that there is a parallel Instagram universe where girls are using makeup to make themselves look purposefully\u00a0<em>un<\/em>,\u00a0perhaps even half dead \u2026 An exceptional age makeup look doesn\u2019t translate to Instagram, where users will just scroll over an image of what they might think is actually an elderly person. The looks that use cheap items like toilet paper and latex and are covered in blood (which makes it easy to disguise mistakes) tend to get the most likes. \u2018People want it to be achievable for them,\u2019 Jones says. \u2018It\u2019s always frustrated me, but the looks that are more DIY get more hits.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A new documentary by Bill Morrison, <em>Dawson City: Frozen Time<\/em>, looks at the trove of film reels that were unearthed from a pit in Dawson City, a small town in the Yukon. Richard Brody writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/richard-brody\/the-secrets-of-silent-film-footage-found-buried-in-the-earth\" target=\"_blank\">Morrison looks at the surviving films and reconstructs the extraordinary arcs of political and cultural history that are latent in them<\/a> \u2026 [The] hunger for entertainment, and for the new medium, accounts for the extraordinary diversity of the material in the Dawson City rediscoveries\u2014not just dramas but newsreels, travelogues, and even scientific and ethnographic films turn up among the recovered reels. Morrison tells the strange story of how the reels ended up there. The remote region didn\u2019t get films until years after their release; as a result, distributors didn\u2019t want to pay for the return of those films, which had exhausted their commercial life. Dawson City exhibitors sought to store the films, but the highly flammable nitrate reels occasionally combusted spontaneously (Morrison documents the horrific and deadly history of film-centered fires, with their victims among the viewing public, as well as their ravages of studios belonging to Thomas Edison and Alice Guy-Blach\u00e9). As a result, many films were dumped in the river, others were burned in a huge bonfire, and those that remained were buried deep below the surface of the earth in a permafrost pit.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s arts and culture news: a new book attempts to persuade liberal arts students to move to Palo Alto; art conservation is harder than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[23943,29213,29212,628,81,19841,4691,10957,21308,224],"class_list":["post-111847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-art-conservation","tag-dawson-city-frozen-time","tag-gore-girls","tag-makeup","tag-movies","tag-percival-everett","tag-silicon-valley","tag-special-effects","tag-tech-bros","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Humanities Majors: the Silicon Valley Cult Wants to Eat Your Brain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: a new book attempts to persuade liberal arts students to move to Palo Alto; 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