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Negative Capability

Negative Capability Philosophical Intelligence Office THE CUTTING EDGE Negative Capability Here’s a surprising story in our climate of austerity and lowered expectations. The Baffler, a quarterly magazine long in the habit of appearing now and then, published three issues in succession last year—the first time three issues have appeared in a single year since the magazine stirred to life in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1988, just before the end of history. The issues, Bafflers 19, 20, and 21, featured salvos in cheerfully independent muckraking, plus poems, stories, and illustrations agile and vivid enough to call adverse attention to the mass production of bureaucracy that props up our national consensus. Because contemplating America’s stagnation was harrowing even for veterans like us, we looked abroad for signs of progress and wound up covering the disintegration of European politics and morals, too. On the way there and back, we translated prose and poetry from Croatian, German, Hindi, and Russian, and watched our own entertainments go into Polish, French, and Italian and commence bothering readers in those languages. Even in the upper reaches of the U.S. media, the most censored in the de-developing world, certain of our more Awful Tales were singled out for praise, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Baffler MIT Press

Negative Capability

Summers, John
The Baffler – Mar 1, 2013
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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2012 John Summers
Subject
Philosophical Intelligence Office
ISSN
1059-9789
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2164-926X
DOI
10.1162/BFLR_e_00123
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Abstract

Philosophical Intelligence Office THE CUTTING EDGE Negative Capability Here’s a surprising story in our climate of austerity and lowered expectations. The Baffler, a quarterly magazine long in the habit of appearing now and then, published three issues in succession last year—the first time three issues have appeared in a single year since the magazine stirred to life in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1988, just before the end of history. The issues, Bafflers 19, 20, and 21, featured salvos in cheerfully independent muckraking, plus poems, stories, and illustrations agile and vivid enough to call adverse attention to the mass production of bureaucracy that props up our national consensus. Because contemplating America’s stagnation was harrowing even for veterans like us, we looked abroad for signs of progress and wound up covering the disintegration of European politics and morals, too. On the way there and back, we translated prose and poetry from Croatian, German, Hindi, and Russian, and watched our own entertainments go into Polish, French, and Italian and commence bothering readers in those languages. Even in the upper reaches of the U.S. media, the most censored in the de-developing world, certain of our more Awful Tales were singled out for praise,

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Published: Mar 1, 2013

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