{"id":99322,"date":"2016-06-15T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=99322"},"modified":"2016-06-15T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T18:38:59","slug":"attack-of-the-de-constructivists-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/15\/attack-of-the-de-constructivists-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the De-Constructivists, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_99324\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/532dc2f5bb994c2291b53389361242f0.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-99324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99324\" class=\"wp-image-99324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/532dc2f5bb994c2291b53389361242f0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/532dc2f5bb994c2291b53389361242f0.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/532dc2f5bb994c2291b53389361242f0-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-99324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rusakov Workers\u2019 Club in Moscow by Konstantin Melnikov, 1927\u201328.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Borges, who died thirty years ago this month, led a life as tangled in riddles as his fiction is. One burning question: How did he pay the bills? \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.longreads.com\/2016\/06\/14\/borges-and-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">Borges was blessed with the most privileged, ideal life for a burgeoning literary genius. Educated in Europe, raised by his father to become a serious writer, Borges devoted his entire life to literature. He did not take a full-time job for nearly forty years<\/a> \u2026 [But] we see that young Georgie Borges did not actually write his great fictions until <em>after<\/em> his family lost their money. For anyone who has struggled to make writing pay, Borges\u2019s financial story is a perplexing\u2014yet utterly hopeful\u2014case to consider.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Watching the gay-pride celebrations and vigils for Orlando at the Stonewall, Huw Lemmey tries to parse the movement\u2019s vexed relationship with political power structures: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/huw-lemmey\/gay-pride-after-orlando\/?utm_source=LRB+online+email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20160531+online&amp;utm_content=usca_subsact&amp;hq_e=el&amp;hq_m=4308837&amp;hq_l=9&amp;hq_v=699d12f4bf\" target=\"_blank\">Early Prides saw placards railing against fascism and police harassment, and calling for the liberation of gay people; at today\u2019s Pride you\u2019re just as likely to see police officers and soldiers marching in uniform, representatives of the arms industry in corporate T-shirts and, for the first time this year, a flyover of military jets<\/a>. Radicals see this as a violent and exclusionary takeover of a liberation struggle by capital\u2019s most reactionary institutions; liberals see it as a mark of society\u2019s progress, with LGBT people now enjoying many of the rights and protections once denied us. For one group, Pride is a celebration of an anti-cop riot, representing the fundamental disconnect between LGBT people and heterosexual society. For another, Pride is the world\u2019s biggest party, representing a spirit of judgment-free inclusiveness, if only for a day. Both are right.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Moscow, meanwhile, constructivist landmarks are suddenly slated for demolition as Russians struggle to decide which parts of their past are worth preserving: \u201c \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jun\/15\/demolition-of-moscow-workers-villages-raises-fears-for-avant-garde-heritage?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook\" target=\"_blank\">They operate by ticking boxes, but you cannot judge a building in this way<\/a>,\u2019 says Marina Khrustaleva, an expert on constructivism \u2026 \u2018By the 1930s, [constructivist buildings] were already rejected for being insufficiently decorative and too western,\u2019 says Khrustaleva. During perestroika, she adds, the architecture was associated with the worst of the Soviet past \u2026 Russians\u2019 bad memories of the 1920s, [Alexandra] Selivanova suggests, keep them from appreciating early Soviet architecture. \u2018People associate this period with hunger and social experiments,\u2019 she says. Stalinist architecture is more popular: \u2018It\u2019s festive and reminds people of the propaganda films of the 1930s and 1950s, which still make an impact today.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In a mad race to professionalize any remaining art forms still given to creativity and informality, Emerson College has decided to offer a B.F.A. in comedic arts, the nation\u2019s first comedy major: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/13\/magazine\/could-a-college-degree-in-comedy-be-anything-other-than-a-joke.html?partner=socialflow&amp;smid=tw-nytmag&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;mtrref=t.co\" target=\"_blank\">Formalizing the study of comedy into an academic degree may seem like, well, a joke. But Emerson has made strides to pre-empt criticism.<\/a> The curriculum is heavy on theory and craft, with practical classes like Comedy Writing for Television, Great Screenwriters: Wilder, Allen, Kaufman and Comedy Writing for Late Night, balanced out by headier electives like Why Did the Chicken?\u2014Fundamentals of Comedic Storytelling.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And while we\u2019re on comedy: \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/thebaffler.com\/salvos\/knock-yourselves-out-schwartz\">Punching up <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/thebaffler.com\/salvos\/knock-yourselves-out-schwartz\">and<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thebaffler.com\/salvos\/knock-yourselves-out-schwartz\"> punching down <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/thebaffler.com\/salvos\/knock-yourselves-out-schwartz\">are relatively new pop-political terms<\/a> \u2026 So it should come as no surprise that they have become entangled with our current national panic over political correctness, which, apparently, not only has created a \u2018humor crisis,\u2019 but also is why we can\u2019t properly fight terrorism, control immigration, or make unruly college students read Alison Bechdel and eat faux <em>b\u00e1nh m\u00ec<\/em>. Western democracy itself hangs in the balance, depending on who happens to be lecturing you at the moment \u2026 The question it raises\u2014Who has the moral authority to punch down?\u2014is a messy one, and one rarely asked of those who appear to punch up.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borges, who died thirty years ago this month, led a life as tangled in riddles as his fiction is. One burning question: How did he pay the bills? \u201cBorges was blessed with the most privileged, ideal life for a burgeoning literary genius. 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