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...twentieth century, firms also played a gigantic role in deciding domestic policy and international resolutions. However, these decisions were made not infrequently against benevolent political ideologies. For example, the U.S. government supported the interests of the United Fruit Company in the massacre of Santa Marta in 1928. To promote the interest of the UFC, the U.S. instructed the Colombian president to comply with orders to forcibly increase worker productivity. Such examples abound from Latin America, Africa, and India. But you don’t need a history lesson in colonization...
...pain. Bolaño manages to etch the host of themes that characterize his entire body of work—the community of literature, popular culture, and Latin American politics—into a structure that renders them at once inherently meaningless and infinitely meaningful. If the history of twentieth century literature is one of deepening disorder, a collapse of tradition in the wake of Walter Benjamin’s storm of progress, then “2666” is a novel with ambitions to exist at that storm’s center...
...book’s critics, it never delivers more than that. But the novel’s central aspiration—perhaps disastrously, the one that can be the easiest to overlook—is unfathomably ambitious: a phenomenological study of destruction at the end of the twentieth century...
Even more, there’s a prevailing sense that much of contemporary poetry is being written to be read more so than to be heard. With the rising popularity of free-verse in the twentieth century, the visual layout of the poem—line breaks, indentations, punctuation, stanza breaks, spaces, etc.—has become increasingly important, replacing emphasis on the auditory landscape of rhyme and alliteration. The disappearance of these poetic devices, which formerly served to aurally delineate the poem, has resulted in an ambiguity as to how the poem’s visual arrangement informs...
...back. Just two years ago, each of the six major studios had at least one specialty film division that bought indie films at events like the Toronto International (TIFF) and Sundance festivals, arranged for them to be shown at movie theaters and marketed them to the public. Today only Twentieth Century Fox, Sony and Universal still have specialty divisions - Disney does, too, but in name only. Paramount closed Paramount Vantage, Time Warner shut down Warner Independent as well as Picturehouse and absorbed New Line into Warner Brothers, Disney has radically reduced Miramax, and Universal sold Rogue. (See films from...