marginal utility annex

An annex to my writing elsewhere.

Friday, April 29, 2005

Against personal responsibilty

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Who would be against personal responsibility? Everyone believes that they should be responsible for their own actions and sensitive to the e...
Thursday, April 28, 2005

Harassment

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It seemed like harassment of some sort to be subjected to yet another harassment policy pow-wow with the HR people and the lawyers at my new...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Birth of the bourgeois artist

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The bourgeois novel, according to Lukacs (I think), has developed in order to stage the conflict between the individual and society, two abs...

Historical roots of "family values"

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Eli Zaretsky's concise broad-stroke account of capitalism's effect on the family, Capitalism, the Family, and Personal Life, contai...
Tuesday, April 26, 2005

"Say hello to my little friend"

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In recent years, I've noticed that while the garish framed photos of Eminem or Nelly or 50 Cent or The Sopranos -- the stuff you see on...
Monday, April 25, 2005

Technosexual

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On the front page of the Marketplace section of today's Journal there are some fairly frightening photos of Asian teenaged girls dolled...
Friday, April 22, 2005

Consumerist cathedrals

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Now that I work on Fifth Avenue, I see some very strange photos being staged by tourists on my walk to the Crown building. Aside from videot...
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