Feel the punch!
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Buraka Som Sistema in Pitchfork's "The 100 Best Tracks of 2008"
Buraka Som Sistema with "Sound of Kuduro" was considered one of the top 100 tracks of 2008.
Feel the punch!
Feel the punch!
Century of the Self
Century of the Self, is a great Adam Curtis documentary about how psychoanalysis has influenced post war america and its society. From the creation of Public Relations to Market Research, the aim is to train people to be led by their most inner desires and not by their rational needs.
He questions the roots of modern consumerism and representative democracy. If the individuals are driven by their inner desires & need of self expression being these fulfilled by products, what space is left to real democracy?
To quote the BBC site:
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
Hope you enjoy.
1. Happiness Machines
2. The Engineering of Consent
3. There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
4. Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
He questions the roots of modern consumerism and representative democracy. If the individuals are driven by their inner desires & need of self expression being these fulfilled by products, what space is left to real democracy?
To quote the BBC site:
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
Hope you enjoy.
1. Happiness Machines
2. The Engineering of Consent
3. There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
4. Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Tuna Fish
Hi All,
Hope you are all doing fine.
I am currently going through a quite complicated period in my life...
On one hand I am currently struggling to understand what is the meaning of life. Well, but that is no news.
On the other hand I have been able to catch up with some of my hobbies. Not taking photographs but, publishing them! ;P
I also have more time to read so I might be able to start writing more about my opinion on current issues.
Well, I was captured last week by an article in the economist about tuna fish. (don't laugh!)
In the last 2 weeks I saw compulsively Planet Earth and Blue Planet magnificent documentaries, and I believe I have got 2 things out of it. One is a David Attenborough's way of speaking and the other is a renewed sensibility to how Gaia, our living planet is evolving.
I was astonished by reading the following article in the economist talking about the possible disappearance in the next couple of years of one of the Tuna species. One of the most concerning points was some scientists believe that even if the fishing would stop today it might just simply be too late.
It simply seams that the world is not becoming a nicer place for our sons to live on...
Enjoy life.
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12675910&CFID=34305634&CFTOKEN=84352706
Hope you are all doing fine.
I am currently going through a quite complicated period in my life...
On one hand I am currently struggling to understand what is the meaning of life. Well, but that is no news.
On the other hand I have been able to catch up with some of my hobbies. Not taking photographs but, publishing them! ;P
I also have more time to read so I might be able to start writing more about my opinion on current issues.
Well, I was captured last week by an article in the economist about tuna fish. (don't laugh!)
In the last 2 weeks I saw compulsively Planet Earth and Blue Planet magnificent documentaries, and I believe I have got 2 things out of it. One is a David Attenborough's way of speaking and the other is a renewed sensibility to how Gaia, our living planet is evolving.
I was astonished by reading the following article in the economist talking about the possible disappearance in the next couple of years of one of the Tuna species. One of the most concerning points was some scientists believe that even if the fishing would stop today it might just simply be too late.
It simply seams that the world is not becoming a nicer place for our sons to live on...
Enjoy life.
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12675910&CFID=34305634&CFTOKEN=84352706
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