{"id":91648,"date":"2015-11-05T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=91648"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T16:01:22","slug":"hatched-in-prison-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/hatched-in-prison-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatched in Prison, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91649\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/151104_eye_gilbatlehatchedinprison2.jpg.crop_.original-original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91649\" class=\"wp-image-91649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/151104_eye_gilbatlehatchedinprison2.jpg.crop_.original-original.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/151104_eye_gilbatlehatchedinprison2.jpg.crop_.original-original.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/151104_eye_gilbatlehatchedinprison2.jpg.crop_.original-original-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-91649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Gil Batle\u2019s \u201cJargon\u201d series: carved eggs alluding to the hidden messages that inmates and their friends and families used to avoid censorship by prison staff monitoring their correspondence.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Great and Noble Defenders of High Culture (one of them rhymes with <em>Kansan<\/em>) would have you believe that books and social media are locked in a mortal battle, and that every time you tweet, an angel-novelist loses his wings. But this is a false dichotomy, Paul Ford says\u2014the best way to read the Internet is to dredge its deep archives of ephemera: \u201cI tweet with the best of them, and I like reading the hard stuff. I have a phone filled with novels, even some experimental ones. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/123213\/lol-nothing-matters-defense-internets-absence-meaning\" target=\"_blank\">But the reality is that the most profound feeling of cultural participation for me comes from trawling databases<\/a>. I like to look through old scanned pages, search against tags on Tumblr, see how hashtags form discussion on Twitter, or look through the dead-eyed monstrosity of a racist comment thread on Facebook. That sort of stuff constitutes \u2018reading,\u2019 for me \u2026 The most meaningful experiences I have, the experiences that give me the greatest insight into the operation of culture over time\u2014something over which historians used to hold a monopoly\u2014are the results of database queries.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>When Germaine Greer\u2019s<em>\u00a0Female Eunuch<\/em> came out in 1970, it placed her at the forefront of the feminist movement: she was a bona-fide public intellectual, a celebrity. Why has her star fallen? \u201c<em>Eunuch<\/em> had a single argument at its core: gendered oppression is all-pervasive. It argued that women were systematically subjugated to the power and will of men and too fearful, polite, or unaware to retaliate and claim authority over their own lives \u2026 Described by her biographer as having \u2018the youth, the charisma, the chutzpah and the media savvy\u2019 to lead the movement, Greer had managed to both radicalize and glamorize women\u2019s liberation \u2026 And then, just as suddenly, Greer wasn\u2019t relevant \u2026 The possibility of rehabilitating Greer\u2019s public image is not, at this point, interesting or even viable. <a href=\"http:\/\/cabinetmagazine.org\/issues\/57\/winant.php\" target=\"_blank\">What remains compelling about Greer is the question of what her irrelevancy reveals about the state of contemporary gender politics, or feminism as we know it<\/a> \u2026 While Greer is undeniably at odds with the goals and rhetoric of today\u2019s complex and often convoluted feminism, women\u2019s liberation as we know it would not exist without her daring in the first place.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>When you keep a diary in prison, you write on whatever\u2019s handy, even if that something is ostrich shells \u2026 and even if you don\u2019t begin the diary until after you\u2019re out of the clink. \u201cSan Francisco native Gil Batle spent twenty years in five different California prisons for fraud and forgery \u2026 The fifty-three-year-old Filipino American now lives in the Philippines, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_eye\/2015\/11\/04\/hatched_in_prison_the_art_of_gil_batle_is_a_20_year_prison_diary_carved.html\" target=\"_blank\">he has spent the past few years carving a twenty-year prison diary\u00a0into the surfaces of dozens of ostrich shells<\/a>. The diary depicts his own haunting stories of prison life and those of the murderers, drug dealers, and armed robbers he served time with \u2026 At first glance, the carved eggshells could pass for ancient artifacts until you look carefully at the subject matter: suicides and stabbings, fights and race riots, cavity searches, and other trials and tribulations of prison life.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>For a few years now, the Internet has made a sport of slowing down pop songs by 500, 1,000, hell, 5,000 percent, tapping the rich mineral deposits of ambient beauty hidden in all that mud. But little has prepared us for the gift that is Alvin and the Chipmunks at sixteen rpm. They sound like a doom-metal band. With the holiday season upon us, Chipmunk-ified tunes will soon blare from a storefront near you\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/chipmunks-slowed-down-metal-as-hell\" target=\"_blank\">gird your loins with the slow version<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Fanny Fern, E. D. E. N. Southworth \u2026 the best-selling women writers of the nineteenth century have names that would land them on the Billboard Top 40 today, and yet their books remain neglected. Their often willfully sentimental novels \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/npr-history-dept\/2015\/11\/03\/453972045\/5-bestselling-writers-you-may-not-have-heard-of?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=books&amp;utm_term=artsculture&amp;utm_content=202603\" target=\"_blank\">grew out of the conduct literature that was popular earlier in the century<\/a>\u2014for example, seduction novels that frightened girls and young women away from sexual impropriety\u2014and was popular among women more so than men. For this reason, it was dismissed by \u2018serious\u2019 authors\u2014as when Hawthorne bemoaned the \u2018damned mob of scribbling women.\u2019 \u2026 Today we recognize that it was a powerful political tool.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great and Noble Defenders of High Culture (one of them rhymes with Kansan) would have you believe that books and social media are locked in a mortal battle, and that every time you tweet, an angel-novelist loses his wings. 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