Posted in humour, value, world on January 19th, 2009 1 Comment »
New Year prediction | clivejames.com
We’ve reached a turning point. A madness has gone out of fashion: the madness of behaving as if only too much can be enough. There will always be another madness, but not that one. From now on a man will have to be as dumb as a petrodollar potentate to think [...]
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 [...]
Posted in value on January 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
Peter Wollen notes,
“Visual display is the other side of the spectacle, the side of production rather than consumption or reception.
Guy Debord, the theorist of spectacle, noted how, in modern times, an excess of display has the effect of concealing the truth of the society that produces it, providing the viewer with an unending stream of [...]
Posted in zeitgeist on November 21st, 2006 1 Comment »
This is what Tim Evans, BT group marketing and brand director, thinks they’re up to with this campaign.
“Adam is going to be the central character of all our consumer television ads from now on. Viewers will see him thrown through life’s highs and lows and watch how BT products and services can help him [...]
