{"id":83575,"date":"2015-03-12T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=83575"},"modified":"2015-03-12T10:58:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T14:58:53","slug":"what-you-can-build-what-you-should-build-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/what-you-can-build-what-you-should-build-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Can Build, What You Should Build, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_83576\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/diplomatic-club.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83576\" class=\"wp-image-83576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/diplomatic-club.png\" alt=\"diplomatic club\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/diplomatic-club.png 1125w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/diplomatic-club-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/diplomatic-club-1024x579.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-83576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diplomatic Club in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1980. Photo \u00a9 Atelier Frei Otto Warmbronn<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Frei Otto, the German architect whose tensile, tent-like constructions were marvels of structural engineering, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-best-of-frei-otto-the-architect-who-engineered-the-1690783540\">has died at eighty-nine<\/a>. He designed his bubbles, webs, and wings to use as few materials as possible; they challenged conventions of durability and permanence. \u201cWhy should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary?\u201d he once asked. \u201cWe can build houses which are two or three kilometers high and we can design halls spanning several kilometers and covering a whole city\u2014but we have to ask, What does it really make? What does society really need?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Tim Youd\u2019s project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/mar\/10\/tim-youd-lucky-jim-kingsley-amis-university-of-leicester\">to retype all of <em>Lucky Jim<\/em><\/a>, mentioned here yesterday, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/mar\/11\/tim-youd-classic-novels-pierre-menard-don-quixote\">an act of intellectual lunacy lifted straight from the pages of Borges<\/a>\u2014in \u201cPierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,\u201d Borges tells of a man who aspires to rewrite all of Cervantes\u2019s masterpiece line-by-line by inhabiting the depths of its author\u2019s soul: \u201cThe initial method that he imagined was relatively simple. Get to know Spanish well, recover his Catholic faith, fight against the Moors or against the Turk, forget the history of Europe between 1602 and 1918, <em>be<\/em> Miguel de Cervantes. Pierre Menard studied this procedure \u2026 but dismissed it as too easy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA well-traveled branch of futuristic fiction explores worlds in which artificial creatures\u2014the robots\u2014live among us, sometimes even indistinguishable from us \u2026 Take Twitter. Or the Twitterverse. Twittersphere. You may think it\u2019s a stretch to call this a \u2018world,\u2019 but in many ways it has become a toy universe, populated by millions, most of whom resemble humans and may even, in their day jobs, <em>be<\/em>. But increasing numbers of Twitterers don\u2019t even pretend to be human.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2015\/mar\/11\/twitter-bot-or-not\/\">James Gleick on the gradual, mediocre rise of Twitter bots<\/a>, which have introduced a kind of artificial intelligence that almost no one is in awe of: \u201cthis is how the future really happens, so ordinary that we scarcely notice.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/conversation\/2015\/03\/04\/academes-willful-ignorance-of-african-literature\/\">academe\u2019s willful ignorance of African literature<\/a>: \u201cAs long as critics and publishers frame African literature as always on the cusp, it will continue to be an emerging literature whose emergence is infinitely deferred. It will remain utopian, just out of reach. It\u2019s long past time to get over this narrative. Its function is, simply, to excuse and legitimize the ignorance of those who have chosen to ignore African literature.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On December 4, 1891, America had what\u2019s believed to be <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.longreads.com\/2015\/03\/04\/the-bomb-in-the-bag\/\">its first suicide bombing<\/a>. Its target was Russell Sage, a financier who \u201creportedly had more ready cash at his disposal than any other person in the U.S. What nobody yet understood\u2014except for the unfortunate occupants of the financier\u2019s wrecked office\u2014was that a crazed man had just targeted Sage for attack. Even though Sage survived it, the assault had an effect that the assailant never intended: a remarkable redistribution of the vast riches of one of the most notorious robber barons of the Gilded Age.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frei Otto, the German architect whose tensile, tent-like constructions were marvels of structural engineering, has died at eighty-nine. 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