Posted in zeitgeist on June 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Andy Gill: ‘Why I hate Coldplay’ - Features, Music - The Independent
In the event, the album is almost exactly as I expected, if a tad shorter on Big Anthems than the previous three. The rhythms are a bit busier, and a bit more ethnic, and Chris Martin’s little falsetto catch – one of modern music’s […]
Posted in zeitgeist, value on May 18th, 2008 No Comments »
iD: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield review | Non-fiction book reviews - Times Online
Lady Greenfield posits three types of identity. Those who are “Someone” locate themselves in relation to others, changing and responding as they gain experience. Those who are “Anyone” are characterised by action, not reflection, and have […]
Posted in zeitgeist on May 18th, 2008 No Comments »
iD: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield review | Non-fiction book reviews - Times Online
The best exemplars are the Japanese hikikomori - young men, predominantly, who have withdrawn from society and spend their time locked away in their rooms in symbiosis with a screen. There are said to be a […]
Posted in tech, zeitgeist on May 1st, 2008 No Comments »
10 Things I Learned from Mental Detox Week | iain tait | crackunit.com
The thing that’ll work for me is to set periods of time where it’s just not allowed.
Amen.
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Posted in design, zeitgeist, ethics, value, pic on May 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Smile and kiss your right to privacy goodbye (according to David Byrne)
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Posted in tech, world, zeitgeist on April 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Johann Hari: It’s the policies that count and that means Londoners should vote for Ken Livingstone - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Ken Livingstone with his adenoidal, amphibian populism is the most successful left-wing politician in Europe today. Born into the white working class in the rubble of post-war London, he […]
Posted in zeitgeist on March 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Some commnetary from Samuel Brittan in the FT on Gordon’s desire to boost this tired Labour government’s rhetoric.He cites Pericles funeral oration as an exception to the rule - speechmaking that does make a difference.
FT.com / Columnists / Samuel Brittan - Please spare us this ‘vision thing’
It is time to come back to […]
Posted in zeitgeist on February 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Interesting NY Times article via Scott Heiferman’s Notes. Hillary’s core constituency sounds remarkably like Hilter’s.
Can this be true?
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Posted in zeitgeist on January 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Looking at the new English manager, I had an intuition along the lines of what Terence Blacker so elegantly details below:Terence Blacker: We just can’t face up to our Englishness - Independent Online Edition > Terence Blacker
The latest splash on the media cowshed floor concerns the appointment of an Italian Fabio Capello to […]
Posted in zeitgeist on December 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Salon.com Books | Hipster rebel punk outsiders — 99 cents a dozen
Liberal humanism, at least in its popular incarnation, has always insisted that while the human body is imprisoned by circumstance, the soul always remains free. Niedzviecki draws heavily on Foucault’s famous assertion that the reverse is actually true: Every human being possesses at […]
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