{"id":92705,"date":"2015-12-09T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=92705"},"modified":"2015-12-11T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T13:40:27","slug":"whats-your-sign-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/whats-your-sign-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Your Sign? And Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_92706\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/antiquities_of_mexico_1831_aztec_zodiac_man_wellcome_l0020862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92706\" class=\"wp-image-92706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/antiquities_of_mexico_1831_aztec_zodiac_man_wellcome_l0020862.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/antiquities_of_mexico_1831_aztec_zodiac_man_wellcome_l0020862.jpg 1284w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/antiquities_of_mexico_1831_aztec_zodiac_man_wellcome_l0020862-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/antiquities_of_mexico_1831_aztec_zodiac_man_wellcome_l0020862-1024x982.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cAztec zodiac man,\u201d a facsimile of the\u00a0original painting or codex, 1831.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>For the cultural critic, astrology is low-hanging fruit: a gimmicky, pervasive pseudoscience that preys on our superstitions, our solipsism, our need to make sense of the unknown. It\u2019s easy to ask people, How can you buy into that shit? But the editors of <em>n+1 <\/em>point out that \u201ca better question might be why people like it, or whether it\u2019s a problem to subscribe to something in which you don\u2019t believe.\u201d They point to astrology\u2019s redemptive features: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/issue-24\/the-intellectual-situation\/stars-theyre-just-like-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">We trust it because it corresponds to nothing; it doesn\u2019t pretend to be true, or demand our belief.<\/a> Unlike the pernicious pseudosciences of the past, or the scientism and pop neurology of the present, astrology poses little threat of getting serious \u2026 As a supplement to other points of view\u2014what\u2019s visible on first impression, say, or what you know of someone from experience\u2014it adds another dimension, pulling some features into the foreground and pushing others to the back, reminding you of a person\u2019s complexity \u2026 To consider that the shy person is sometimes wild, the considerate person sometimes duplicitous, is to practice something rather like empathy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>At business schools, meanwhile, they\u2019re teaching something much more treacherous than astrology: literature. At Columbia, aspiring executives can take a three-hour weekly course called Leadership Through Fiction, taught by Bruce Craven: \u201cA four-minute promotional video posted online alongside Craven\u2019s syllabus outlines the rationale for repurposing literature as management shibboleth \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/thebaffler.com\/salvos\/better-management-belles-lettres\" target=\"_blank\">These novels, he explains, are \u2018narratives about characters in many different professions\u2019 who must find a \u2018balance between their professional obligations, their personal expectations, and goals.\u2019<\/a> Like real people, fictional characters stumble, and it is \u2018through their stumbling,\u2019 Craven promises, \u2018that we will learn how to prepare ourselves for the future.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>In her Nobel Lecture, Svetlana Alexievich\u2014who will not, one suspects, be auditing Craven\u2019s class\u2014puts forth a more nuanced purpose for literature: \u201cFlaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2015\/alexievich-lecture_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">I always think\u2014how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness. We haven\u2019t been able to capture the conversational side of human life for literature. We don&#8217;t appreciate it, we aren&#8217;t surprised or delighted by it.<\/a> But it fascinates me, and has made me its captive. I love how humans talk &#8230; I love the lone human voice \u2026 It always troubled me that the truth doesn\u2019t fit into one heart, into one mind, that truth is somehow splintered. There\u2019s a lot of it, it is varied, and it is strewn about the world. Dostoevsky thought that humanity knows much, much more about itself than it has recorded in literature. So what is it that I do? I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time. I\u2019m interested in the history of the soul. The everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits, or disdains. I work with missing history.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If you really want to steep yourself in \u201cthe everyday life of feelings,\u201d look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_vault\/2015\/12\/07\/history_of_the_american_yearbook_photo.html\" target=\"_blank\">108 years of high school yearbook photos reduced to a minute-long video<\/a>. Researchers at UC Berkeley compiled the images to study the changing face of the American teen: \u201cThe regular nature of yearbook photos\u2014schools have been asking students to face forward and be recorded for posterity since the early twentieth century\u2014made them a good candidate for this kind of machine-driven visual analysis, which can catch small variations in repetitive images \u2026 The final data set is made up of 37,921 forward-facing portraits.\u00a0The population represented in the dataset is from 115 high schools, in twenty-six states \u2026 The researchers created a delightfully named \u2018lip curvature metric\u2019 to measure smile intensity, finding that while everyone smiled more as time went on, girls always smiled more than boys.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>As our nation\u2019s smile intensity has changed, so has the valence of its slang. Take the word <em>badass<\/em>: in the mid-1950s, as Hermione Hoby explains, it was \u201cused for the kind of men whose posturing invited mockery. To call someone a badass was to seek to puncture puffed-up masculine pride.\u201d Today, though, it\u2019s become perhaps the single most nauseating faux compliment: \u201cthe phrase \u2018badass women\u2019 peaked in 2015. This, in other words, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/dec\/07\/problem-being-badass-feminism-women-behave-like-men\" target=\"_blank\">the year in which <em>badass<\/em> underwent such a regendering that it became understood as the foremost battlecry of feel-good feminism<\/a> \u2026 If female badassery, as we understand and value it, comes down to maleness in the most basic and anatomical sense, if virtual dicks are now the yardstick for female power, then we have a problem. Because beneath the feel-good female bravura of <em>badass<\/em> is a decidedly feel-bad notion, namely that the only way a woman can exercise power is to submit herself to the drag (in both senses) of \u2018behaving like a man.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the cultural critic, astrology is low-hanging fruit: a gimmicky, pervasive pseudoscience that preys on our superstitions, our solipsism, our need to make sense of the unknown. It\u2019s easy to ask people, How can you buy into that shit? 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