January 2010
13 posts
Uggghhhh Brand Experience
So I go in to their Westfield London store to by some shoes the other day, shoes I am broadly happy with I might add; you know the ones with all the white fur inside that makes you feel like you are pacing about in a couple of koala pelts. So anyway, I’m in store and am sauntering around their faux Australian rain forest decor fully expecting to see a trained marsupial with a pair of shoes...
Ethicability and Economics 2.0
Went to a Chartered Institue of Marketing talk last night organized by Michael Lynch of the Finance Market Interest Group. One of the presentations was by a chap by the name of Roger Steare Professor of Organisational Ethics at Cass Business School lectured on Truth, Trust and the Philosophy of Money. Money is a promissory note, nothing more than a signifier and therefore the crisis we have...
Top 10 All Time Favourite Hip-Hop Albums
Should start a bit of debate amongst the old school hh heads. Not necessarily the 10 best but probably my 10 all time favourite hip-hop albums. I know, I know, no Wu Tang. 1. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold us Back 2. Nas - Illmatic 3. Dr. Dre - The Chronic 4. Main Source - Breaking Atoms 5. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders 6. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die 7....
Magritte - Semiotic Subversion?
René Magritte I love this - most beguiling of his paintings – it’s called “the Secret Player” I think. He suggested that none of his paintings carried any meaning of any sort, and that he got his mates to suggest facetious names for them – I think he was being disengenuous. This painting is amenable to all sorts of readings. Two foppish gentlemen are in the midst of playing some sort of game with...
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of...
Published by MIT, hoping the contents will do justice to the slickly designed book cover…
Not only one of the best book titles I have come across recently but also promises to be a riveting read for anyone interested in the relationship between mind and music. I have just received my copy and will be ripping through it once I clear a backlog of non-fiction. Steve Goodman, aka Kode 9, of...
The Power of Yes
The Power of Yes. Great play. Bloody depressing but great play. All about the financial crisis and how royally screwed we’ve been in the UK. A [playwright goes round interviewing those close to the crisis, of course everyone fervently disavows any culpability for it) - he is led through the crisis by a 24 year old Sarajevan banker, her youth but uncommon apparent sagacity an interesting paradox in...
The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke’s latest film is another exercise in surreptitious dread. Semiotically he specializes in drip feeding in a sinister subtext and what is non manifest. What often drives his plots are the metaphorical corpses under the floorboards whose stench is present but barely perceptible and never named specifically. The White Ribbon is another film that lodges in the brain in an unwelcome...
