{"id":91838,"date":"2015-11-11T09:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=91838"},"modified":"2015-11-11T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:29:00","slug":"the-existing-state-of-things-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/11\/the-existing-state-of-things-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Existing State of Things, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91839\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/joseph_severn_-_posthumous_portrait_of_shelley_writing_prometheus_unbound_1845.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91839\" class=\"wp-image-91839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/joseph_severn_-_posthumous_portrait_of_shelley_writing_prometheus_unbound_1845.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/joseph_severn_-_posthumous_portrait_of_shelley_writing_prometheus_unbound_1845.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/joseph_severn_-_posthumous_portrait_of_shelley_writing_prometheus_unbound_1845-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/joseph_severn_-_posthumous_portrait_of_shelley_writing_prometheus_unbound_1845-1024x702.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-91839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Severn, <i>Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound<\/i>, 1845.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/10\/lost-shelley-poem-execrating-rruling-class-public-poetical-essay-on-the-existing-state-of-things\" target=\"_blank\">The Bodleian Library has recovered a lost poem by Shelley<\/a>\u2014the ambitiously named \u201cPoetical Essay on the Existing State of Things,\u201d written when he was just eighteen. It\u2019s 172 lines of pure political invective, and its themes, as one professor said, \u201cremain as relevant today as they were 200 years ago.\u201d It\u2019s true. Certain lines (e.g., \u201ccold advisers of yet colder kings \u2026 who scheme, regardless of the poor man\u2019s pang, \/ Who coolly sharpen misery\u2019s sharpest fang, \/ Yourselves secure\u201d) resonate quite well on this, the morning after the GOP debate.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve all wondered, in our lives as readers, how our cohort could be so fantastically wrong about some author or another\u2014why such fantastical lapses of taste are celebrated far and wide. And so it falls to Tim Parks to ask the question on everyone\u2019s mind: How could you like <em>that <\/em>book? \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2015\/nov\/10\/how-could-you-like-that-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">I live under the constant impression that other people, other readers, are allowing themselves to be hoodwinked. They are falling for charms they shouldn\u2019t fall for<\/a>. Or imagining charms that aren\u2019t there. They should be making it a little harder for their authors \u2026 What might really be worth addressing here is the whole issue of incomprehension: mutual and apparently insuperable incomprehension between well-meaning and intelligent people, all brought up in the same cultural tradition, more or less. It\u2019s curious, for example, that the pious rhetoric gusting around literature always promotes the writing and reading habit as a powerful communication tool, an instrument for breaking down barriers, promoting understanding\u2014and yet it is exactly over my reaction to books that I tend to discover how completely out of synch with others I am \u2026 Could this be the function, then, or at least one important function of fiction: to make us aware of our differences?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Here, I brought you these rhetorical questions about the cloud, that most porous of metaphors for digital space: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/how-the-metaphor-of-the-cloud-changed-our-attitude-toward-the-internet\" target=\"_blank\">How did we come to place our faith in a symbol that is so ephemeral\u2014all vapor and crystal?<\/a> \u2026 What kind of thinking does the cloud, so porous and diffuse, enable? Does our participation in the cloud require us to surrender a bit of our privacy? Can it help explain the rise of the meme and our increasingly lax attitude toward notions of authorship and origins, the way something on the Internet begins to seem ubiquitous and ambient, as if it had always just been there?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Michael Bierut is responsible for a lot of the high-profile signage you see around New York\u2014his new book <em>How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things, Make Things Look Better, Make People Laugh, Make People Cry, and (Every Once in a While) Change the World<\/em> testifies to his reach as a designer and his expectations for design. His designs all emerge from his notebooks: \u201c \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/06\/t-magazine\/logo-maps-designer-nyc-michael-bierut.html?module=CloseSlideshow&amp;region=SlideShowTopBar&amp;version=SlideCard-6&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=T%20Magazine&amp;pgtype=imageslideshow\" target=\"_blank\">I get very protective about them, like children, pets, lucky charms and security blankets<\/a>,\u2019 he says. One spread shows sketches of the deconstructed Saks Fifth Avenue logo for the department store\u2019s shopping bags from a decade ago. He remembers one of the designers in his firm screaming after blowing it up into fragments. Bierut ran over immediately to look, and compared it to a Franz Kline or a Barnett Newman piece. \u2018I remember at that moment saying, Wait, this could be it, sixty-four squares\u2014each one of them was like a beautiful abstract painting.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>At the start of the twentieth century, Arnold Genthe, a German immigrant, took <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/11\/10\/arnold-genthe-chinatown\/#LwcNKM9_ukqK\" target=\"_blank\">photographs of San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown<\/a>. They\u2019re some of the only remaining photos of the neighborhood from that period; most were swallowed in the earthquake of 1906. \u201cGenthe was fascinated by Chinatown and took hundreds of photographs of the area and its inhabitants. He used a small camera and sometimes captured his subjects covertly. He later cropped some of his images to remove western references.\u201d \u201cSome day the whole city will burn up,\u201d a friend told him. \u201cThere\u2019ll never be another Chinatown like this one, and you have its only picture record.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bodleian Library has recovered a lost poem by Shelley\u2014the ambitiously named \u201cPoetical Essay on the Existing State of Things,\u201d written when he was just eighteen. It\u2019s 172 lines of pure political invective, and its themes, as one professor said, \u201cremain as relevant today as they were 200 years ago.\u201d It\u2019s true. Certain lines (e.g., [&hellip;]<\/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":[20168,9651,1974,15213,20167,125,6589,100,7221,165,53,93,14405,15179,12735,7014],"class_list":["post-91838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-arnold-genthe","tag-chinatown","tag-graphic-design","tag-metaphors","tag-michael-bierut","tag-new-york-city","tag-percy-bysshe-shelley","tag-photography","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-reading","tag-san-francisco","tag-taste","tag-the-cloud","tag-the-internet","tag-tim-parks"],"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>The Bodleian Has a Rediscovered Poem by Percy Shelley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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