Browsing the archives for the The Millions category

Reading under Neoliberalism

24 Feb, 2010 in Andrew Goldstone, Joshua Landy, neoliberalism, The Millions, The Program Era by

(Crossposted at Arcade.) This post is a response to a comment made by Andrew Goldstone in a comments thread on Joshua Landy’s fascinating Arcade blog post, "Human Minds, Literary Texts, and CD Players."  I was originally going to post this as a comment, but the response grew too long and unwieldy, so here it is […]

Listmania vs. Lake Woebegone

1 Oct, 2009 in Andrew Seal, Edmond Caldwell, Helen DeWitt, John Guillory, The Millions by

X-posted at Plasma Pool. There is an interesting emerging conversation about The Millions‘ recently published “Best [Books] of the Millennium” list on a number of blogs I follow. First, Edmond Caldwell over at Contra James Wood questions the whole premise of list-making, associating such lists with the predominantly corporate character of the imprints represented on […]