The Baffler
The Baffler has been a magazine for cultural criticism and criticism of politics and economics in the USA since 1988 .
history
The Baffler first appeared in 1988 and was edited by Thomas Frank and Keith White . The editor was Greg Lane . The title of the irregularly appearing magazine Der Verwirrer or Der Verblüffer already shows that the content of the Baffler does not float in the mainstream of official US opinions, but wants to publish other opinions in a satirical form. For example, the magazine's criticism related to business culture and business with culture .
The Baffler took the liberty of publishing a Lexicon of Grunge as a joke . The theme of the alleged language of subculture in Seattle in the early 1990s was picked up by the New York Times and introduced as the future language of youth in schools and malls. The Baffler later went public with this made-up joke . Musician Steve Albini revealed in an article titled The Problem with Music the internal machinations of the music business during the heyday of indie rock .
After 17 issues, The Baffler was discontinued in 2006. The Chicago , Illinois- based magazine , sold only through bookstores, had a circulation of 12,000 copies in its prime.
New beginning
In 2010 The Baffler was reissued by the former editor and now author Thomas Frank. The magazine was part of MIT Press until October 2014 . This connection did not mean, even under the new beginning editor John Summers in 2011 , that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was excluded from the criticism by the authors of the journal. Since then, The Baffler has been published independently.
The better-known authors of Baffler today include people who are not among the representatives of the powerful American opinion makers, but people who criticize the power in America and the power of the USA in the world. This is what Thomas Frank, the anarchist David Graeber , Susan Faludi and Evgeny Morozov write, among others .
literature
- Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland (Eds.): Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler . Norton, 1994, ISBN 0-393-31673-4 .
- Thomas Frank, David Mulcahey (Eds.): Boob Jubilee. The Cultural Politics of the New Economy. (Salvos from the Baffler) . Norton, 2003, ISBN 0-393-32430-3 .
- John Summers , Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (Eds.): No Future for You. Salvos from the Baffler . MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2014, ISBN 978-0-262-02833-2 .
Web links
- Website of the journal (en.)
- Biography Tom Frank (en.)