{"id":4925,"date":"2019-12-31T07:14:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2020-12-31T19:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T03:10:18","slug":"my-ten-favorite-open-culture-posts-of-2019-brutalist-architecture-the-great-american-road-trip-houellebecq-reading-tocqueville-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4925","title":{"rendered":"My ten favorite Open Culture posts of 2019: brutalist architecture, the great American road trip, Houellebecq reading Tocqueville, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/OC-Barthes-Citroen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4926\" width=\"489\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/OC-Barthes-Citroen.jpg 978w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/OC-Barthes-Citroen-300x153.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/OC-Barthes-Citroen-768x393.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For nearly eight years now, I\u2019ve written a post every weekday at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/\">Open Culture<\/a>, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, architecture, television, radio, or language. The total comes to more than 2,000 so far, and here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/03\/the-case-for-writing-in-coffee-shops.html\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/07\/alexis-de-tocquevilles-prediction-of-how-american-democracy-could-lapse-into-despotism.html\">Alexis de Tocqueville\u2019s Prediction of How American Democracy Could Lapse Into Despotism, Read by Michel Houellebecq<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/09\/a-brief-history-of-the-great-american-road-trip.html\">A Brief History of the Great American Road Trip<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/07\/a-documentary-introduction-to-nick-drake.html\">A Documentary Introduction to Nick Drake, Whose Haunting &amp; Influential Songs Came Into the World 50 Years Ago Today<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/04\/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-beauty-of-brutalist-architecture.html\">Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Beauty of Brutalist Architecture: An Introduction in Six Videos<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/09\/the-greatest-cut-in-film-history.html\">The Greatest Cut in Film History: Watch the \u201cMatch Cut\u201d Immortalized by Lawrence of Arabia<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/04\/how-andy-warhol-and-tintin-creator-herge-mutually-admired-and-influenced-one-another.html\">How Andy Warhol and Tintin Creator Herg\u00e9 Mutually Admired and Influenced One Another<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/08\/the-timeless-beauty-of-the-citroen-ds-the-car-mythologized-by-roland-barthes-1957.html\">The Timeless Beauty of the Citro\u00ebn DS, the Car Mythologized by Roland Barthes (1957)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/07\/why-1999-was-the-year-of-dystopian-office-movies.html\">Why 1999 Was the Year of Dystopian Office Movies: What <em>The Matrix<\/em>, <em>Fight Club<\/em>, <em>American Beauty<\/em>, <em>Office Space<\/em> &amp; <em>Being John Malkovich<\/em> Shared in Common<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/11\/why-david-sedaris-hates-americas-favorite-word-awesome.html\">Why David Sedaris Hates America\u2019s Favorite Word, \u201cAwesome\u201d<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/12\/the-zen-of-bill-murray.html\">The Zen of Bill Murray: I Want to Be \u201cReally Here, Really in It, Really Alive in the Moment\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See also&nbsp;my ten favorite Open Culture posts of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4718\">2012<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4721\">2013<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4725\">2014<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4728\">2015<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4577\">2016<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4321\">2017<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4571\">2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly eight years now, I\u2019ve written a post every weekday at&nbsp;Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, architecture, television, radio, or language. 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