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@jengolbeck I logged into USA Jobs and it still says in review. 🤷‍♂️

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I just checked and it looks like I’m still not kicked out of astronaut screening which is incredibly weird. @jengolbeck did you apply last year?

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John Jay College’s comms team is not doing well. 1) I don’t want to transfer to your school. 2) Your unsubscribe is atrocious. Should a user de-click each option to unsubscribe? Why isn’t there an Unsubscribe option. 3) I unsubscribed and keep getting mail. https://t.co/3jo4oIZJla image

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The Crisis of Modernity

James Ensor

Meet James Ensor
Belgium’s famous painter
Dig him up and shake his hand
Appreciate the man

Before there were junk stores
Before there was junk
He lived with his mother and the torments of Christ

  • They Might Be Giants, 1994

In the song “Meet James Ensor”, the band They Might Be Giants (1994) discuss one aspect of the late 19th Century that we see in Barkin’s essay “The Crisis of Modernity”. Until this time of industrialization, purchased belongings were precious. Textiles and materials were purchased, fabricated into something, and disassembled then re-used when their usefulness was finished…there was no junk. This move towards the inevitable “junk stores” is an excellent framework for some of the themes present in the essay that go beyond a nostalgia for the past: industrialization, urbanization, and the affect on humans.

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