Pacific Standard Picks Archives

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PS Picks: ‘(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love,’ a New Book That Depicts Vlogging as Aspirational Labor

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

PS Picks: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ and a More Optimistic Vision of the Future

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

William Oldroyd receives the award for international movie for his movie Lady Macbeth on stage during the Award Night Ceremony during the 12th Zurich Film Festival.

PS Picks: The Buried Aggression in Lady Macbeth

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

A screenshot from 'The Prison in Seven Landscapes.'

PS Picks: Exploring Mass Incarceration as a Societal Problem in ‘The Prison in Twelve Landscape’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

A user logging into Twitter on their smartphone.

PS Picks: Zeynep Tufekci’s ‘Twitter and Tear Gas’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

Magazine

Is Poetry Poised for a Renaissance?

Pacific Standard recommends The Poetry of Pop and Simulacra, two new books that challenge the outdated way doomsayers define poetry.

Kristina Kutateli

To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death.

Magazine

How Technology Has Already Changed What It Means to Be Human

Pacific Standard recommends To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, a new book that profiles members of the transhumanist movement.

Kristina Kutateli

News in Brief

Pacific Standard Picks

PS Picks: ‘(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love,’ a New Book That Depicts Vlogging as Aspirational Labor

PS Picks: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ and a More Optimistic Vision of the Future

PS Picks: The Buried Aggression in Lady Macbeth

PS Picks: Exploring Mass Incarceration as a Societal Problem in ‘The Prison in Twelve Landscape’

Is Poetry Poised for a Renaissance?

How Technology Has Already Changed What It Means to Be Human

Subverting the Racially Charged Tropes Often Found in the Horror Genre

PS Picks: Netflix’s ‘Bill Nye Saves the World’

PS Picks: Our Recommendations for What to Watch, Read, and Listen to Right Now