Pop Music 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 The new math of mashups. by Sasha Frere-Jones January 10, 2005 In July of 2003, Jeremy Brown, a.k.a. DJ Reset, took apart a song. Using digital software, Brown isolated instrumental elements of “Debra,” a song by Beck from his 1999 album “Midnite Vultures.” Brown, who is thirty-three and has studied with Max Roach, adjusted the tempo of “Debra” and added live drums and huma
Repeated scientific debunking hasn’t dented brainstorming’s popularity.Illustration by Nishant Choksi In the late nineteen-forties, Alex Osborn, a partner in the advertising agency B.B.D.O., decided to write a book in which he shared his creative secrets. At the time, B.B.D.O. was widely regarded as the most innovative firm on Madison Avenue. Born in 1888, Osborn had spent much of his career in Bu
Text and map by Aaron Reiss Videos by Nate Lavey and Aaron Reiss New York’s unofficial shuttles, called “dollar vans” in some neighborhoods, make up a thriving transportation system that operates where the subway and buses don’t. This interactive project, with videos, maps out that system. Click here to read more about the history of dollar vans. In 1980, when a transit strike halted buses and sub
The anthropologist David Graeber, in a new book, seeks a diagnosis and epidemiology for what he calls the “useless jobs that no one wants to talk about.”Illustration by Martina Paukova Bullshit, like paper waste, accumulates in offices with the inevitability of February snow. Justification reports: What are these? Nobody knows. And yet they pile up around you, Xerox-warmed, to be not-read. Best-pr
Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook, testifying before Congress about data privacy and security, in April.Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux for The New Yorker Once, Mad Men ruled advertising. They’ve now been eclipsed by Math Men—the engineers and data scientists whose province is machines, algorithms, pureed data, and artificial intelligence. Yet Math Men are beleaguered, as Mark Zuckerberg
In addition to his novels, Philip Roth leaves behind a corpus of essays, criticism, and other artifacts.Photograph by Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Philip Roth, the American literary icon whose novel “American Pastoral” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1998, has died, at the age of eighty-five, according to friends close to him. His great subjects, as Claudia Roth Pierpont wrote in this magazine,
A new book blames authoritarianism on politicians entranced by the free market.Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez; photograph from iStock / Getty In London, in the nineteen-thirties, the émigré Hungarian intellectual Karl Polanyi was known among his friends as “the apocalyptic chap.” His gloom was understandable. Nearly fifty, he’d had to leave his wife, daughter, and mother behind in Vienna shortly
Transactions involving Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, were the subject of multiple unreleased suspicious-activity reports.Photograph by John Taggart / MediaPunch / Alamy Last week, several news outlets obtained financial records showing that Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney, had used a shell company to receive payments from various firms with business before th
Trump, Netanyahu, and a Day of Dangerous Fictions at the New U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli security forces on the border between Israel and Gaza on Monday. Dozens of Palestinians were killed.Photograph Wissam Nassar / picture-alliance / dpa / AP On Sunday, the national-security adviser, John Bolton, told ABC’s “This Week” that the U.S. move of its Embassy
The Carnage and Chaos of Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” In the new Childish Gambino music video, “This Is America,” Donald Glover forces us to relive public traumas and barely gives us a second to breathe before he forces us to dance.Photograph from Donald Glover / YouTube I happened to listen to “This Is America,” the new single by Childish Gambino, a.k.a. Donald Glover, before I saw the el
The head of one rental-relative company described the service as “human affection expressed through the form of the family.”Illustration by Javier Jaén Editors’ Note: In 2019, the Japanese press uncovered evidence that an employee of Family Romance, a Japanese rental-family agency described in this piece, had falsely posed as a client of the company in a TV documentary. As a result of this revelat
As Eric Schneiderman used the authority of his office to assume a major role in the #MeToo movement, the distress of four women with whom he has had romantic relationships or encounters grew.Illustration by Oliver Munday; Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty (man) Update: Three hours after the publication of this story, Schneiderman resigned from his position. “While these allegations are unrelated to m
An attendee of Chicago’s Pokémon Go Fest, in July, 2017. Hit Japanese products such as Pokémon have long captivated us, but Japan's most influential export might be its own lived experience.Photograph by Daniel Boczarski / Getty Thanks to hip-hop and Hollywood, the United States is still the world’s leading cultural exporter. But, in recent years, American culture has increasingly been following a
We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way that norms and standards change.Illustration by Harry Campbell Why do some innovations spread so swiftly and others so slowly? Consider the very different trajectories of surgical anesthesia and antiseptics, both of which were discovered in the nineteenth century. The first public demonstration of ane
Estimates suggest that ninety per cent of American companies have been hacked.Illustration by Golden Cosmos One day in the summer of 2003, Shawn Carpenter, a security analyst in New Mexico, went to Florida on a secret mission. Carpenter, then thirty-five, worked at Sandia National Laboratories, in Albuquerque, on a cybersecurity team. At the time, Sandia was managed by the defense contractor Lockh
The vocoder—part military technology, part musical instrument—has had quite a history. In our new Object of Interest video, we explore the vocoder in settings ranging from the Second World War to Kraftwerk parties, featuring interviews with Laurie Anderson, Cozmo D, Dave Tompkins, and Frank Gentges.
Mark Rothko’s Harvard murals, “Panel One,” “Panel Two,” and “Panel Three,” Holyoke Center, 1964.Photograph Courtesy Harvard Art Museums © President and Fellow of Harvard College. Every afternoon at four o’clock, people gather on the third floor of the Harvard Art Museums to watch them turn off the Rothkos. The Rothkos are the series of murals that Mark Rothko painted, more than fifty years ago, on
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