#eric schlosser

[mentaltimetraveller]

Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser’s “the bomb” at Pioneer Works, New York, 2021. Multimedia installation, 59:00 minutes.

[dynamobooks]

Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906)

[bookmarkquotes]

'The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.' -Eric Schlosser | Click here for more daily quotes.

[walkerartcenter]

On April 30, 1999, Werner Herzog walked to center stage in the Walker Cinema and unveiled his new manifesto on truth and fact in documentary cinema. Subtitled Lessons of Darkness, the Minnesota Declaration, as he dubbed it, outlined his concerns with documentary film and, for the first time, explained his concept of “ecstatic truth.”

On the manifesto’s 18th anniversary, we invited Herzog to respond to the titular question of this series: what is truth in times of “alternative facts” and “fake news”? His response: a new, six-point addendum to the Minnesota Declaration. To complement his new thinking, we’ve also posed the same question to four thinkers: critic Ben Davis, filmmaker Sabaah Folayan, artist RaMell Ross, and investigative journalist Eric Schlosser. (Illustration by Ben Schwartz)

[orangecatblues]

I is not very far into Fast Food Nation and wat I has learned is General Motors, Firestone, Mack Truck, and Standard Oil was caught and found guilty of conspiring to purchase ofur 100 trolley systems through shell companies and ripping dem up to replace dem wif busses dey made. Anyhow, each company were fined $5,000 and da executives fined $1 each. It's almost like da reason we can't have nice things is *checks notes*

A free pass for rich sociopaths

Capitalism.

[sleepy-cephalopod-studies]

Supersize Me is still a dogshit documentary that's incredibly biased, but I'm pleasantly surprised at Eric Schlosser's book Food Inc. so far. Maybe it's because it goes into the other insidious aspects of the fast food industry aside from the big focus of the film being how a solely fast food diet can be detrimental to your health. It's just more in-depth than a documentary can be (even one that ISN'T flawed like his was) and it's much more interesting every time he goes into the devious aspects behind marketing and how companies will offer brand sponsorships to struggling schools, or how fervently anti-union and anti-worker these companies are while exploiting vulnerable groups like children, immigrants, and the disabled.

Plus this book wasn't shoved at me the way Supersize Me was, did any other fat kids that had to watch this in health class feel the way other kids would glance at or sideye you or develop eating disorders afterwards? No? Just me? OK 🥲

[kaggsy59]

"The hot summer sun was shining lazily..." #japaneselitchallenge16 #thebellsofnagasaki

“The hot summer sun was shining lazily…” #japaneselitchallenge16 #thebellsofnagasaki

Having spent my first read for the Japanese Literature Challenge by exploring some concepts of aesthetics and beauty, I moved into more difficult territory for my next book. A number of the books on my Japanese TBR were published by Kodansha who used to bring out some beautiful editions of ‘Japan’s Modern Writers’ and I used to pick these up whenever I came across them. One slim volume I’d never…

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[badgerswake]

“And should Armageddon come, should a foreign enemy someday shower the United States with nuclear warheads, laying waste to the whole continent, entombed within Cheyenne Mountain, along with the high-tech marvels, the pale blue jumpsuits, comic books, and Bibles, future archeologists may find other clues to the nature of our civilization—Big King wrappers, hardened crusts of Cheesy Bread, Barbeque Wing bones, and the red, white, and blue of a Domino’s pizza box.” - Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser