Flavorwire » What Comes After the Hipster? We Ask the Experts I agree with Bruce Michael Conforth here: QUOTE The sociologist Robert Jay Lifton has written about the “Protean Man” who is more comfortable with images than with words and with fragmentation than with wholes. This, of course, is nothing more than the fruition of […]
The City, Covered With Logos – Arts & Lifestyle – The Atlantic Cities Corporate brand imagery as kudzu. Great points. QUOTE The logo-ing of our cities and neighborhoods is this process in reverse. Instead of borrowing the ambiance and associations of a place, the product infests it with its own characterless generica, diminishing and voiding […]
Can Urban Highways Be Fixed? – Commute – The Atlantic Cities Dwight D Eisenhower’s interstate freeway plan did not intend for freeways to run through cities. Too bad that memo was ignored… QUOTE But Eisenhower never intended that the Interstates be built through densely populated cities. A memorandum of a 1960 meeting in the Oval […]
“Over It” – The rant of an angry, Agnostic, British, Indo-Pakistani woman of Muslim heritage. | . Brilliant “rant” (not really a rant, more like good old common sense)! QUOTE I am over members of my community putting pre-pubescent girls in a hijab when they are not even old enough to understand or give consent […]
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