Godard Without the Politics
My Current Affairs publication!
Hello, friends!
It’s finally here in electronic form: my essay “Godard Without the Politics.” You can click here to check it out on the Current Affairs website.
While you’re over there, I’d highly recommend purchasing a subscription to their glorious print edition. As I’ve noted previously, the magazine is ad-free and thus funded entirely by subscriptions and donations, which Current Affairs uses to cover its operating costs and – unlike many ad heavy publications – pay its writers for their work! It also uses the freedom that comes with independent funding to publish some startlingly original and provocative pieces on topics that simply don’t make it into mainstream media or algorithm generated newsfeeds. Those pieces serve a really important function in a media landscape that’s basically devoid of left wing perspectives and oversaturated with silly clickbait, pathologically moderate punditry, and blind, conservative rage.
So, support independent media! To get you started, here are links to a few of my favorite CA pieces:
“The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari” by Darshana Narayanan
“New York: The Invention of an Imaginary City” by Yasmin Nair
“Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?” by Bertrand Cooper
“Why You Hate Your Job” by Aravind "Vinny" Byju
“The Cool Kid’s Philosopher” by Nathan J. Robinson
Thank you all for your support thus far! I’m planning a couple new posts in the weeks ahead, so keep an eye out for those.
In the meantime, happy reading!
– Ryan
P.S. In my last post, I also forgot to plug the Current Affairs podcast, which you can support on Patreon. It also has many free episodes available on Spotify, including “Have the Suburbs Ruined Everything?” with New Yorker writer Bill McKibben, “Why Web3 Is Going Just Great” (not really) with crypto critic Molly White, and several “Book Club” episodes ranging from the novels of Sally Rooney to the Minions!
P.P.S. I know it must seem like it, but this is not a sponsored ad for Current Affairs magazine, which (as far as I’m aware) doesn’t do sponsored ads. This post is just pure enthusiasm without an underlying financial incentive. Isn’t it weird that I feel the need to disclose that?