Tag: New Yorker

Cinema, Comedy, and the City

Woody Allen and Walter Benjamin walk into a café…

On Brazilian Aardvarks, Wikipedia, and Digital Populism

What many fail to grasp is that Wikipedia, despite its suffix, is not an encyclopedia. Ever heard of a coati? How about a Brazilian aardvark? Ostensibly the two are one-in-the-same, at least according to Wikipedia. Problem is there’s no such thing as a Brazilian aardvark,