{"id":88415,"date":"2015-07-31T08:49:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=88415"},"modified":"2015-07-31T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:11:03","slug":"the-melons-of-yesteryear-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/31\/the-melons-of-yesteryear-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Melons of Yesteryear, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_88416\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/giovannistanciwatermelon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88416\" class=\"wp-image-88416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/giovannistanciwatermelon.jpg\" alt=\"giovannistanciwatermelon\" width=\"600\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/giovannistanciwatermelon.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/giovannistanciwatermelon-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giovanni Stanchi, <i>Watermelons, peaches, pears and other fruit in a landscape<\/i>, 1645\u201372.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in obsolete fruits: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/7\/28\/9050469\/watermelon-breeding-paintings\" target=\"_blank\">a seventeenth-century still life by Giovanni Stanchi reveals the extent to which selective breeding has altered the watermelon<\/a>\u2014nay, life!\u2014as we know it. Look at Stanchi\u2019s painting and you\u2019ll see a smaller, rounder, whiter fruit that today would never make it to market. We\u2019ve demanded bigger, redder, juicier, more oblong melons. What have we wrought?<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Delany has been writing for more than half a century now, and a new collection of his early work reminds of how he\u2019s changed the genre of science fiction: \u201cDelany came of age at a time when the genre was indeed characterized by gee-whiz futurism, machismo adventuring, and white, heterosexual heroes. From the beginning, Delany, in his fiction, pushed across those boundaries, embraced the other, and questioned received ideas about sex and intimacy \u2026 Even now, when graphic sex and challenging themes are hardly unusual, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/samuel-delany-and-the-past-and-future-of-science-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">Delany\u2019s rapturous sexuality and his explorations of race within the trappings of science fiction have the power to startle<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Everyone critiques social media by suggesting that it forces us to turn ourselves into products\u2014the presumption is that we\u2019d prefer a service that allows for some more boundless, less prepackaged form of \u201cself-expression.\u201d But the problem might be more insidious than that: it might be that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/blogs\/marginal-utility\/know-your-product\/\" target=\"_blank\">users enjoy becoming the product<\/a> \u2026 The self, as a product, loses its enchantment for us and needs to be revitalized to the extent that it becomes familiar, known, understood. We love ourselves only as a novelty, a mystery, not as a staple product. We want to be able to apprehend ourselves as a new, desirable thing that we can consume and enjoy. This makes us feel relevant, marketable. We can imagine someone buying into the idea of us, and that helps us buy into ourselves. But inevitably our desire for ourselves needs to be renewed, and we will need to be repackaged.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jacob Fugger, a banker born in 1459, was known as \u201cJacob the Rich.\u201d He got this nickname because he was very, very rich. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/books-and-arts\/21660074-not-nothing-was-jacob-fugger-known-jacob-rich-goldenballs?fsrc=scn\/tw\/te\/pe\/ed\/Goldenballs\" target=\"_blank\">he may well have been the richest man who ever lived<\/a>: \u201cFugger was able to obtain control of commodities such as silver, from Austria, and copper, from Hungary. He built a smelter to refine the copper and traded it himself quite pitilessly \u2026 He helped finance a Portuguese scheme to relocate the pepper and spice trade to Lisbon, a move so successful that it delivered a fatal blow to the commercial stature of Venice. He also had a thirst for information about trade and commerce that led him to create a network of couriers whose reports to Augsburg were printed and distributed to clients in the form of a primitive newspaper. Fugger had invented the world\u2019s first news service.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>But let\u2019s not forget that there are plenty of obscenely wealthy people today and that, unlike Fugger, many of them have been photographed. Myles Little, an editor, has compiled pictures of the upper crust in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/07\/30\/what-its-like-to-be-in-the-global-1-percent-in-15-incredible-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Percent: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality<\/a>,\u201d and the results are startling\u2014even more so than you\u2019d expect. In part this is because Little strove to make the show \u201cposh\u201d: \u201cI wanted to borrow the language of privilege and wealth by including beautiful photos, beautiful, precious objects, but I wanted to use that language to subvert wealth, and critique wealth and privilege.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in obsolete fruits: a seventeenth-century still life by Giovanni Stanchi reveals the extent to which selective breeding has altered the watermelon\u2014nay, life!\u2014as we know it. 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