Dave Mandl’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications. He was the longtime music editor at The Brooklyn Rail and an editor at Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia. He hosts the radio show It’s Complicated at WFMU and plays the bass guitar in various groups.
Dave Mandl
Articles
Giant Platforms of Shit
Dave Mandl catches a whiff of Cory Doctorow’s anatomy of platform “enshittification.”
The “Twaddle” in Finance
In his review of “Poor Charlie's Almanack,” Dave Mandl delights in Charles T. Munger’s skewering of contemporary investing and business practices.
North Korea on the Hudson: On Alexander Stille’s “The Sullivanians”
The history of an Upper West Side sex therapy cult isn’t what you think it will be, according to Dave Mandl’s review of Alexander Stille’s “The Sullivanians.”
“I’m Going to Learn How to Make My Own Kind of Life”: On Vashti Bunyan’s “Wayward”
David Mandl reviews Vashti Bunyan’s memoir “Wayward: Just Another Life to Live.”
Data Mining for Humanists
Big Data is watching you, and Lev Manovich thinks that’s just fine.
Screwing Up Is What We Do
Dave Mandl examines Tom Phillips’s book “Humans,” which details the many ways we’ve screwed up.
Dave Brubeck Unsquared: On Philip Clark’s New Biography
Dave Mandl takes five with “Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time” by Philip Clark.
Need You — Baby
Dave Mandl consults “Where to Score,” a collection of classified ads culled from the pages of the “San Francisco Oracle.”
The Gentrification of Boston’s South End
What is interesting about the South End story is what it reveals about gentrification generally, old or new, diverse or not.
Hidden Histories
Dave Mandl on urban history and John Rogers's thinking-out-loud travelogue, "This Other London."
Performance Anxiety: David Grubbs’s “Records Ruin the Landscape”
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
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