He also examines the obverse trend in the literary marketplace, with authors increasingly expected to serve as their own “storytelling managers.”
[...] As German author Philipp Schönthaler writes in his new book, Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author, beginning in the 1980s, businesses have studiously “redefined themselves as engaged in ‘cultural and affective activity,’” and as a result, they’ve begun to view their employees “as interpr…
These stories are placid homilies of consumer-spiritual stasis
[...] To abridge thinking in the name of the emergencies that today are permanent reduces it to slogans, perpetual cheerleading or nay-saying. The notion that liberals cannot criticize liberalism or leftists cannot criticize leftism partakes of a bankrupt tradition. My object in any event is not to…
the choice is not between a virulent racism and an anodyne diversity; and even if it were, criticism of the latter should not cease
