Fw: The Nation: "dreary" (fwd)

[Chuck Munson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Chuck Munson wrote:
> 
>> Hear, hear. I'm glad to read Doug's opinion's on this dreary and ugly 
>> magazine. Of course, Z features some good writers, but I've never 
>> understood why the design of the magazine has been kept so unappealing.
> 
> 
> In one of the first issues of Z, Michael Albert and George Scialabba 
> (and whatever happened to him? he was good) had an exchange over the 
> issue of "style." S was for it, A was against it. A's argument was that 
> aspiring to stylishness was really an attempt to seduce the elite. (Wish 
> I still had the text - I'm doing this from my unreliable memory.) Also, 
> someone close to Albert told me once that he thinks editing is an 
> authoritarian activity. Voila, a hideous, clunky magazine that has "take 
> your castor oil" written all over it.

Hey it confirms my suspicions!

I gather that the artists will be the first against the wall when the 
great "paraeconomist revolution" takes place?

;-)

Chuck0

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