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An #obituary for the remarkable Lewis Lapham, creator of the amazing Lapham’s Quarterly:
“On The Remarkable Legacy Of Lewis Lapham” [2024], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-lapham/).
#LewisLapham #LaphamsQuarterly #Writing #Editing #Publishing #Style #Lapham #RIP
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
"A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn’t enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong”
-Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935-2024)To what you cited he added a punch line: “The spectacle is nearly always comic.”
The quotation is from 1989!
More on #LewisLapham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H._LaphamFrom #WordADay
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> The author of two best-selling book-length self-promotions, Obama was elected by virtue of his celebrity, a commodity meant to be sold at the supermarket with the cosmetics and the canned soup, elevated to the office of a totem pole.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/dancing-stars
#SweetCelebrity #Obama #SelfPromotion #CelebrityObama #AdvertisingGods #LewisLapham in #LaphamsQuarterly on #ModernMedia -
> .. the reverence for monarchy in 1823, William Hazlitt likened it to “a natural infirmity, a disease, a false appetite in the popular feeling, which must be gratified.” The dream-buying public wants a “peg or loop to hang its idle fancies on, a puppet to dress up, a lay figure to paint from.” The idol is best made from poor or worthless raw material because it is then subject to the whim of its manufacturer.
https://tomdispatch.com/lewis-lapham-sweet-celebrity/
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> The camera sees but doesn’t think.
> As the habits of mind beholden to the rule of images come to replace the structures of thought derived from the meaning of words, the constant viewer eliminates the association of cause with effect, learns that nothing necessarily follows from anything else.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/dancing-stars
#LewisLapham #SweetCelebrity #DancingWithTheStars in #LaphamsQuarterly
#LaphamOnTheCamera #TheCamera #CauseAndEffect