Author: KB
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Noise Mapping | Sound Pollution | Aural vs Visual
Via TimeOut, the London Noise Map. It’s a pretty sophisticated resource, with maps produced by postcode, time of day, major roads excluded or included etc. What’s interesting about the article that accompanied the piece in TimeOut is that it showed that Londoners find road noise to be their great source of irritation. In a world…
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The 3rd Economy: Gift, Market and Plunder [2] | Individual Ownership and The Root of Warfare
In the previous post I began to set out some further thoughts on gift, springing from my reading of Thorstein Veblen’s 1899 satire Conspicuous Consumption. I want to continue to develop the thoughts outlined there about the ‘leisure class’ that Veblen describes. Essentially, we might now see them as the aristocracy, or celebrities. They are…
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The 3rd Economy: Gift, Market and Plunder [1] | Christian Leadership and the Leisure Class
As some of you may know, I’ve been working on a novel for the past few months, playing with themes, among others, of the links between identity and consumption. One of the books I’ve picked up to feed the furnace has been Thorstein Veblen’s 1899 satire Conspicuous Consumption (an excerpt from his longer work The…
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Not At My Table
“What if the next burger you ate was created in a warm, nutrient-enriched soup swirling within a bioreactor?” Does anyone actually want this? Would a vegetarian eat it on absence-of-animal-cruelty grounds? Can they really replicate that bacon-sandwich smell? Technorati Tags: Science, Technology, Vegetarianism
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Don’t Listen To Music | Emotional Sound-spaces | (alt)Worship
Had a great time chatting to Barry Taylor yesterday – who’s over in the UK ‘writing a film score’ (yeah right Barry – we believe you 😉 We got on to talking music. I’d recently heard John Bell talk about protest music, and, harking back to the good old days of Dylan and Joan Baez,…
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Surface Tension | Lost Worlds
“One of the great losses of the Information Age is texture. Consider the pre-computer desk: a litter of papers, large and small, handwritten, printed and typed, course and fine; letters in varying hands, envelopes of various sizes bearing stamps from all over the world. Here are books, annotated and bookmarked; here is a typewriter with…