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The Akademi Mag
EditorCharu Pragya
CategoriesPolitics, Culture, Society
Founder
  • Charu Pragya
  • Aarman Roy
Founded2020
CompanyPublic Knowledge Studios
CountryIndia
Based inNew Delhi
LanguageEnglish
WebsiteOfficial URL

The Akademi Magazine (also known as Akademi Mag) is an Indian magazine on politics, culture, and society. Formally established in 2020 by editors Charu Pragya and Aarman Roy, amidst the formulation of CAA-NRC and subsequent protests, Akademi grew to prominence due to its political commentary on the same. As of 2021, Akademi distributes its commentaries and narratives in the forms of pieces through its website, social media and the Friday Talks podcast.[1][2][3]

As of 2016, the magazine and its collections of essays are distributed through bookstores in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

History

The magazine was first published by Greg Lane.[citation needed] Its motto was "the journal that blunts the cutting edge."[4] It became known for critiquing "business culture and the culture business"[5] and for having exposed the grunge speak hoax perpetrated on The New York Times.[6] One famous and much-republished article, "The Problem with Music" by Steve Albini, exposed the inner workings of the music business during the indie rock heyday.[7]

The magazine is credited with having helped launch the careers of several writers, including founding editor Thomas Frank, Ana Marie Cox, and Rick Perlstein.[4]

Issues

The magazine published sporadically, first once a year then slightly more often, but that slowed down after the Chicago office of The Baffler was destroyed in a fire on April 25, 2001.[8] Publishing became more regular and frequent after its relaunch and move to Cambridge in 2011. Timeline of publication:[9]

Year # Year # Year # Year #
1988 1 1996 8 2010 18 2017 34–37
1990 2 1997 9–11 2012 19–21
1991 3 1999 12–13 2013 22–23
1992 4 2001 14 2014 24–26
1993 5 2003 15–16 2015 27–29
1995 6–7 2006 17 2016 30–33
Peter Thiel and David Graeber debate at the "No Future for You" event hosted by The Baffler, NYC, 2014

The Baffler is sold through many different distribution channels, both as a book and as a magazine; in addition to the publication's ISSN, all but the earliest issues have an individual ISBN.

Relaunch and move

In 2009, founding editor Frank decided to revive the magazine.[10] It was relaunched with Volume 2, Issue 1 (#18) in 2010, with a new publisher, editors, and design.

In 2011, The Baffler moved its headquarters to Cambridge, and John Summers took over as editor. The magazine signed a publishing contract with the MIT Press, and after another redesign, began publishing three times a year.[11] In 2014, it ended that contract and brought publishing operations in house.[12] In 2016, the magazine moved to a quarterly schedule and moved its headquarters to New York City.[13] Summers left in 2016 and Chris Lehmann took over the editorship of the journal. In 2019, Lehmann departed for The New Republic and Jonathon Sturgeon became editor in chief.[14]

The Baffler has also organized literary events and debates with its contributing editors.

In 2017, The Baffler and CTXT, a Spanish independent online publication, began a collaborative editorial agreement.[15]

Collections and books

In addition to the magazine, The Baffler has published a few collections of its essays and other writings.

  • Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler. Edited by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland. Norton, 1997. ISBN 0-393-31673-4
  • Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy (Salvos from The Baffler). Edited by Thomas Frank and David Mulcahey. Norton, 2003. ISBN 0-393-32430-3
  • Cotton Tenants: Three Families. Edited by John Summers. Melville House, 2012. Excerpts from a lost manuscript on Alabama tenant farmers by the writer James Agee. ISBN 978-1612192123
  • No Future For You: Salvos from The Baffler. Edited by John Summers, Chris Lehmann and Thomas Frank. MIT Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-262-02833-2[a]

Podcasts

The Baffler has previously hosted the podcasts Whale Vomit, by Amber A'Lee Frost and Sam Kriss; News from Nowhere, by Corey Pein; and The Nostalgia Trap, by David Parsons.[16]

Notes

  1. ^ A French translation was published as Le Pire des Mondes Possibles by Editions Agone in 2015.

References

  1. ^ "Akademi Magazine Official Website". Akademi Magazine. Akademi Mag. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
  2. ^ "Akademi Magazine Instagram Handle". Instagram. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
  3. ^ Nihira Ram (9 October 2020). "Hate Speech Is An Assault On Formal Equality: Hate Speech Beda". website (Podcast). Akademi Magazine. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b Jennifer Schuessler (July 21, 2014). "The Baffler Puts Its Archive Online". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
  5. ^ Elizabeth Taylor (January 11, 1998). "Mixing Business with Culture". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
  6. ^ Leon Nefaykh (August 14, 2009). "Remember the Grunge Hoax?". New York Observer. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
  7. ^ Albini, Steve (1993), "The Problem with Music", The Baffler, vol. 5, no. 5, Chicago: Thomas Frank, pp. 31–38, doi:10.1162/bflr.1993.5.31, ISSN 1059-9789, OCLC 24838556, archived from the original on 2007-09-28, also archived from the dead Baffler site. (Reprinted in Maximum RocknRoll #133 (June 1994) and later various websites.)
  8. ^ Ron Charles (July 21, 2014). "A Quarter Century of The Baffler". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
  9. ^ Timeline checked with BookFinder plus WorldCat, consolidated with various sources, including DustyGroove, BookMaps, LibraryThing.
  10. ^ Leon Nefaykh (June 24, 2009). "Color Me Baffled! Thomas Frank's Magazine Lives Again". New York Observer. p. 10. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
  11. ^ Peter Monaghan (October 26, 2011). "'The Baffler' Will Reappear via MIT Press". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
  12. ^ Peter Monaghan (October 28, 2014). "MIT Press and a Rebellious Journal Will Part Ways". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
  13. ^ The Baffler (June 2016). "About". Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  14. ^ "Predicting the Winner of the Fiction Pulitzer; The Baffler Names Its New Editor". Bookforum. April 15, 2019. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  15. ^ http://ctxt.es/es/20170906/Politica/14825/The-Baffler-CTXT-acuerdo-editorial-EE-UU.htm
  16. ^ "Bafflercasts". The Baffler. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
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