Weekly Filet #209: How societies become segregated. And more.
1. Parable of the Polygons
Why societies become segregated when everyone wants to live in a diverse, but not too diverse neighbourhood. A playable explainer on how harmless choices can make a harmful world. Brilliant.
2. Theorizing the Drone (Longreads)
A complex, thought-provoking text on the nature of drones: about terrorist-ish patterns of behaviour, remote controlled suicide bombers and the pains of killing in shifts.
3. Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body (Nautilus)
Thanks, Obama!
4. The Inexplicable (The New Yorker)
Inside the mind of a mass killer. Karl Ove Knausgård on Anders Breivik.
5. Jay-Z B-Sides Concert (YouTube)
Almost two hours of Jay-Z live, 46 songs, all B-sides, you're welcome.
Recommended by Gabriel Vetter: László Krasznahorkai's acceptance speech for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize (New Statesman)
«To Max Sebald, the marvellous writer and friend, who is no longer among the ranks of the living, as he gazed for too long at one single blade of grass in the meadow.»
– Man Booker International Prize acceptance speech by László Krasznahorkai
Acceptance speeches at award ceremonies tend to be either too long, very boring or overachieving. The 2015 laureate of the Man Booker International Prize, Hungarian surrealist writer László Krasznahorkai, held a rather outstandlingly weird, heartfelt and poetic speech when he was awarded the Prize in London this week. Listen to his short but charming speech.
May guest curator: Gabriel Vetter is a slam-poet and writer from Switzerland. He is the head writer and one of the protagonists of a TV-series called «Güsel – Die Abfalldetektive» (literally: the trash detectives), which is so great you should actually learn Swiss German just to understand it. You can follow Gabriel on Twitter, at your own risk, of course.