Category: Culture
-
The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Case Study – Venice
Empire, trade, beauty, corruption, the sublime, the long death, and the circle closing
-
Harvey and the Continentals
David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity and the Cultural Spine of Political Economy
-
The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Co-option of Black music by a White industry
In which we outline a century of economic extraction dressed as cultural appreciation
-
Aesthetics Agency Alienation Anxiety Authority Authorship Bureaucracy Capitalism Colonialism Commodity Critical Theory Culture Debt Democracy Economics Enlightenment Feminism Fiction Frankfurt School Gender Government Ideology Language Luxury Marx Morality Philosophy Political Economy Politics Power Race Science Shakespeare Structuralism Theatre Truth Violence Walter Benjamin
What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
-
A History of British Architecture: Wren, the City, and the Long Georgian Century c. 1660 to 1830
A meander through the history of British Architecture by era. Wren, the City, and the Long Georgian Century c. 1660 to 1800
-
The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Experience Economy Eats Itself
In which we conclude that genuine experience is more resilient than the system that tries to sell it.
-
A History of British Architecture: Dissolution, Civil War, Empire and the Making of British Exceptionalism
A meander through the history of British Architecture. Some thoughts on what informs the ideological framework which explains all the subsequent architectural development.
-
PIG IRON: Pete and Bernie’s Philosophical Steakhouse
In which Alan Partridge goes to Paris, eats a testicle, and unknowingly demonstrates everything this series has been arguing.
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 