Cereal as a Metaphor for Capitalism
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A business course on cutthroat capitalism disguised as a slacker comedy: Thatâs the kindest way to describe Michael Lehmannâs âFlakes.â
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: A hospital in Coventry lays bare the deceit of neoliberal logic: staff cuts, ward closures and millions to the financiers.
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How's this for thinking outside the box: a cafe with jammies-clad servers pouring cereal day and night, topping it off with everything from fruit to malted milk balls, and serving it in "bowls" resembling Chinese takeout containers. It's all cereal. Seriously.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.
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What seem to be ordinary, everyday objects to some people can carry a storehouse of information about the ownerâs ideology.
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Rethinking some banal and non-techy energy stuff, such as corn and wood, and you get ... a corn-powered house, anyone? Plus: The green glow, from environmental economics to using algae as a solar collector. Mark Anderson reports from the MIT Energy 2.0 conference in Autopia.
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It's time for radical robomediation. Let's hand the service industry to automatons rather than transforming humans into reluctant machines. Commentary by Momus.
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A few years ago, in my early twenties, I was set to graduate from university. At the time, I lived with my parents and had an easy job as the network administrator of a local fishing company. A few months before convocation, my parents divorced, my boss fired me (incidentally, for this article), and I had stopped school because I thought my life of free room and board was over. I spammed my address book crying for work. An acquaintance called me to do some contract work for a startup board game company. What followed was a lesson in something that I would have never learned in university: reality.
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Western knockoffs and Islamic bling: Debunking some popular stereotypes of life in Iran.
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How&#39;s this for thinking outside the box: a cafe with jammies-clad servers pouring cereal day and night, topping it off with everything from fruit to malted
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Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: Take the thousands of Filipino children who die every year courtesy of the formula milk corporates, backed by US lobbying.
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Unearthing values in the post-bubble wreckage.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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"In Defense of Food" (The Penguin Press, 256 pages, $21.95), by Michael Pollan: Food isn't what it once was. Actually, much of what we eat today may not be food at all. That is the main lesson drawn from Michael Pollan's new book, "In Defense of Food," a meticulously researched, self-described "Eater's Manifesto."
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Henry Jenkins  and his observations on social responsibility in Chinese video game culture.
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The local-global conundrum, a thoroughly modern predicament, has found its way into a small shelfâs worth of new food books.