From Fibreculture, a special issue on the imprecise and disagreeable aesthetics of remix. In the Attic: A writer wonders which neighbor will hide him when the next genocide happens. Fashion's forgotten fascists: An interview with Mario Lupano and Alessandra Vaccari, authors of Fashion at the Time of Fascism. A look at the ten most useless Daily Beast lists of all time, or at least until next month. Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog made him famous — but it was far from his last hurrah. From Dissent, Richard Wolin on Jurgen Habermas and the "new political obscurity"; and Alan Johnson on Zizek or Bobbio. Behold the gentle interplay of measurement, urology, and psychology: “Penile Size and the Small Penis Syndrome”. Believe It or Not (2010 Imperial Edition): Tom Engelhardt on U.S. war-fighting numbers to knock your socks off. Everything is contagious: Dave Johns on the recent outbreak of social contagion studies (and part 2). Climate change, biodiversity loss, nuclear conflict — all are caused by human activity; we need a way to reorganize and refocus the sciences and humanities with a “Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior”. A review of Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton. New pundits, prodigies or pipsqueaks? Nothing more vividly highlights changing times at legacy news outlets than high-profile newcomers. Why is our response to mine disasters always the same? A review of The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? David Brooks, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tyler Cowen, Susan Orlean, and others share their secrets.
