{"id":96253,"date":"2016-03-30T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=96253"},"modified":"2016-03-30T10:32:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:32:48","slug":"who-is-the-black-flaneur-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/30\/who-is-the-black-flaneur-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is the Black Fl\u00e2neur? and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_96256\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/crawl.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96256\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96256\" class=\"wp-image-96256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/crawl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/crawl.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/crawl-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/crawl-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/crawl-1024x662.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Pope.L, <i>The Great White Way, 22 miles, 9 years, 1 street<\/i>, 2001\u20132009. Photo: William Pope.L, Pruznick\/Grey.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>All hail Zardulu! She appears in ceremonial robes around Gotham, begging mortals to serve as \u201ctools\u201d in her \u201cgrand architectural designs.\u201d And these designs \u2026 they may seem, from the outside, like they\u2019re just viral videos. But they\u2019re a new body of myths. Andy Newman reports: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/29\/nyregion\/zardulu-artist-selfie-rat-pizza-rat-viral-internet-hoaxes.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=second-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0&amp;mtrref=www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The artist calls herself Zardulu. Her medium is the elaborately staged viral video<\/a>. As to her own identity, Zardulu will say only that she was born in Manhattan in 1971 \u2026 She has been revealed as the force behind the\u00a0Selfie Rat, who achieved world fame for appearing to take a self-portrait with a passed-out man\u2019s phone on a subway platform. She has been suspected as the creator of the even more famous\u00a0Pizza Rat, caught dragging a slice down subway stairs in September, though another man claims credit for that video \u2026 She does, however, have plenty to say in a more general way about the enduring power of mystery. Like: \u2018I think creation and perpetuation of modern myths is a tragically underappreciated art form. It upsets me when I hear people refer to them as lies.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s face it, the fl\u00e2neur is a white guy. He strolls, he gazes, he observes\u2014he takes these luxuries as his due. What would black fl\u00e2nerie look like? Doreen St. F\u00e9lix starts with the artist William Pope.L, who \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.good.is\/features\/issue-36-flanerie\" target=\"_blank\">prostrated himself on New York City\u2019s Broadway Avenue for nine years, intermittently. He called the performances \u2018crawls.\u2019 Dressed in a Superman suit with a skateboard strapped to his back, the tall, thin, statistically average-looking black American man would crawl on the sidewalk as long as weather and upper body strength allowed<\/a>, which never exceeded six blocks. Known as\u00a0<em>The Great White Way, 22 Miles, 9 Years, 1 Street<\/em> (2001\u20132009), Pope.L\u2019s drama featuring varyingly proscribed cosmopolitan movements\u2014those of the disabled, of the homeless, of commuting black Americans\u2014attracted dramatics from his unwitting public as well. A cameraman documented most of the odd sojourn and the reactions, which ranged in horror, boredom, disgust, delight, and confusion. One passing black pedestrian stopped, so incensed by Pope.L\u2019s state that he nearly kicked the artist in the face.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The grammar handbook is a hard sell. How to get people to care about the serial comma? How to reinvigorate the art of the nonrestrictive <em>which<\/em>? Frank L. Cioffi\u2019s book goes all Solzhenitsyn on the problem;\u00a0it\u2019s called <em>One Day in the Life of the English Language<\/em>, and it shows us the horrors of the labor camp called usage: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/public\/article1681143.ece\" target=\"_blank\">It illustrates points about grammar and punctuation using examples drawn from newspapers and magazines all published\u2014online or in print\u2014on December 29, 2008<\/a> (hence talk of the financial crisis, the election of Barack Obama, strife between Israel and Palestine). And its author, Frank L. Cioffi, who teaches writing at Baruch College in New York City, is humble. His aim is not so much to enforce rules as to provoke debate. He wants you to look beyond the meaning of the sentence to the choices made by the writer and the editor.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in libraries and the delicate art of assertion: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/the_bills\/2016\/03\/san_jose_might_offer_scofflaw_library_patrons_amnesty_good.html\" target=\"_blank\">The San Jose Public Library wants its books back. And its CDs and DVDs<\/a>. Taken altogether, library patrons are holding onto or have damaged 97,000 items and owe the city $6.8 million in fines and fees. The situation is so out of control that about 40 percent of the city\u2019s library cardholders can no longer borrow anything until they return their library holdings and pay what they owe. For a library, this is a DEFCON moment. Maybe not DEFCON 1, but at least DEFCON 3 \u2026 Over the years, libraries have fined patrons for not bringing back books and offered no-questions-asked return periods. They\u2019ve published the names of book scofflaws in local newspapers.\u00a0They\u2019ve paid personal calls on people who hold onto books past their due dates, and even sicced the police on particularly recalcitrant readers. And they still don\u2019t really know how to get their books back.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Remember King Philip\u2019s War? Not firsthand\u2014it happened in the seventeenth century. But it\u2019s a grisly and oft-forgotten chapter in American colonial history: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/therevealer.org\/archives\/20744\" target=\"_blank\">In terms of percentages, King Philip\u2019s War is the most violent in our national history, and ignoring the per capita numbers, it was in its ferocity and almost gothic horror perhaps the most genuinely violent event in the whole American narrative<\/a> \u2026 We have never really recovered from the trauma \u2026 King Phillips War has more than a whiff of the allegorical about it, it is a typological example of a recurring event in American history, a chapter in the dubious sacred scripture of our civil religion, and we witness its continuing battles every day.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All hail Zardulu! She appears in ceremonial robes around Gotham, begging mortals to serve as \u201ctools\u201d in her \u201cgrand architectural designs.\u201d And these designs \u2026 they may seem, from the outside, like they\u2019re just viral videos. But they\u2019re a new body of myths. Andy Newman reports: \u201cThe artist calls herself Zardulu. 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