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FIXE | 05.03.00 Portrait Of The Blogger As A Young
ManThe ascendance of the search engine has done nothing to stem the tide of the Web's original filter: the personal Web log. Julian Dibbell gets inside the obsessions of one of the Net's most prolific bloggers.
A new anthology of young
African-American writers drives home a painful truth: America, black
and white, remains a nation of warring ideals. Keith Gessen
reads between the lines.  ESSAY |
04.28.00 Playing GodWhile the mainstream media fulminates against the violence of "first-person shooters," the bestseller charts of the videogame industry have been quietly taken over by cerebral titles like The Sims. David Kushner previews the next wave of the god-game revolution.
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Malcolm GladwellFEED's Steven Johnson talks with Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell about epidemics, teen smoking, crime waves, and why Rudy Giuliani is a closet radical.
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04.25.00 RE:
Patrick Bateson Edge's John Brockman talks to the renowned ethologist about animal-rights activism, the nature vs. nurture debate, the importance of children's play, and teddy bears.
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04.24.00 Maybe Race Has Nothing To Do With
ItSeven years after the Whitney Museum's "multicultural Biennial" roiled the art world, two young artists are making racially-charged videos that resist identity politics. Carly Berwick reports.
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SAVER | 04.21.00 Great EscapesIn his inaugural film column, Sam Lipsyte praises the actor that Paul Newman has become, while raising the ghost of another male movie idol who never got the chance to age as gracefully as Newman has -- the inimitable, inscrutable Steve McQueen.
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04.19.00 Slaves to the RhythmHigh Fidelity's John Cusack sifts his soul through the screens of his speakers. Matthew DeBord looks at the film, and his own record collection, to judge the merits of lives lived three minutes at a time.
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| 04.10.00 Cinderella Story Is the success of Erin Brockovich the result of Julia Roberts undeniable charisma? Or is an atomized public embracing Orwellian versions of intimacy? Alex Abramovich looks at the uneasy nexus of money and memory in the culture of no-culture.
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04.06.00 Unruly History VH1's frothy tributes have nearly supplanted the classic rockumentary. But a new film about the Sex Pistols proves that this form still thrives. Robert Reynolds looks at the forgotten history of rock and roll vérité.
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04.05.00 My
So-Called Fate The boom economy promises a future where we control virtually everything -- except destiny. Is this why mainstream cinema is embracing the multiple identities of science fiction? Peter Braunstein goes to the movies.
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04.04.00 Vanishing PointA new multimedia production of The Commissar Vanishes evokes the terrors of Stalinist Russia -- a time, Matt Steinglass argues, not so far removed from our own.
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03.31.00 Adventures in The Skin Trade Vanessa Beecroft became a star of the art world by stripping beautiful women and placing them in military formation. What happens when one of them breaks ranks? Gloria Fisk reports from the frontlines.
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03.28.00 A
Magazine of Their Own Thirty years ago, a group of feminists staged a sit-in at the Ladies Home Journal, demanding more from women's media. Nicole Davis wonders just how far we've come.
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03.23.00 Danes in ToylandEuropeans have long railed against the Disneyfication of the world. Does the alternative lie in a new amusement park just outside of Los Angeles? Jessica Hundley goes to Legoland to find out. ESSAY |
03.21.00 The Judgment of Paris Everyone already knows the French are different from you and me. Do we really need Adam Gopnik and Michel Lewis to remind us of it? Matthew DeBord on the art of the Paris Correspondent.
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| 03.17.00 The Third VoiceWorking with another artist might be the hardest trick to pull off -- and the most rewarding. Chris Fujiwara limns the tangled web of egos behind four great collaborations, and explains what makes them tick.
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03.16.00 God on the GridironReligion is the year's biggest sports story. Why is it getting so little play? Jason Sokol investigates.
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FIXE | 03.15.00 Immaterial World What happens to the art of collecting when what you're stockpiling is intangible? In the first installment of his new column, Idée Fixe, Julian Dibbell uploads his music CDs to his hard drive -- and finds a new religion.
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03.14.00 Future SchlockFrom bamboo furniture to decorative brooches, old junk fetches big money on Antiques Roadshow. But what gets lost when we put our possessions on the auction block? Erik Davis explains.
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03.10.00 Rings of DesireMillions of Asian consumers are finding out whether mobile phones can improve their sex lives. The answer may be a sign of things to come for the American wireless industry. Oliver August reports from Hong Kong.
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03.09.00 Public Art Redux A new generation of artists is collaborating with communities and taking to the streets. But why are they so ambivalent about the political implications of their work? Carly Berwick reports.
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03.07.00 Eve PsychSociobiology was supposed to be a boys' club of gender stereotypes. How come so many of its star practitioners are women? Maia Szalavitz talks to the female pioneers of evolutionary psychology.
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Chris Kraus Lisa Carver talks to I Love Dick author Chris Kraus about anorexia, the essence of romance, and faking it.
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03.03.00 Black Danube Europe's most vital waterway has just been poisoned with cyanide from a reckless mining accident. Jim Ridgeway and Jeffrey St.Clair explain why there's nothing to prevent this kind of disaster from happening in the US.
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IF YOU WENT
to work on Monday, you're a sucker:
that day, May 1, was National Phone In Sick Day. Not yet a bank
holiday, the event was another of the activist collective Rtmark's
anticorporate pranks, one with a serious point -- promoting
awareness of the deterioration of that increasingly precious
resource, free time. "We have all of these powerful technological
tools," said Rtmark spokesman Frank Guerrero. "We should be able to
make space for leisure." If hearing a member of the digital culture
complain about the adverse effects of technology seems odd, it also
sounds oddly familiar. In 1865, Brooklynite William Harding,
president of the coachmakers union, spoke at a rally for the
eight-hour work day. "Labor-saving" machines should start saving
labor, he argues, rather than just increasing profits. The working
class should get to spend time with their families, have some fun.
The workers, exhausted from putting in twelve to fourteen hours a
day, agreed. One of the striker’s chants went: "We may have enough
to live on, but never an hour for thought." Click here to share your thoughts in the Daily Loop. For discussion of other recent FEED Dailies, check out last month's Daily Loop.
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Rock and reel: Has
the classic rockumentary gone the way of the 8-track tape, or are we
now witnessing its unexpected, and timely, rebirth?
Stranger than (science) fiction: Why
are seemingly mainstream movies veering into sci-fi territory?
The Commissar Vanishes: Does
our contemporary information culture evoke the era of Stalinist
Russia?
Meet the new mag, same as the old mag: Are
the new women's networks breaking boundaries, or simply serving up
the same old service-journalism recipe?
Microsoft after antitrust: Is
the Justice Department weakening a monopoly, or creating an even
nastier monster?
Credit where it's due: Can the rewards of artistic collaboration outweigh the
headaches?
A removable feast: Who really cares what American writers in Paris have to
say?
God on the gridiron: Do religion and sports belong on the same playing
field?
Julian Dibbell loves Napster's musical intimacy. Does that creep you out, or make you want to join
in?
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