New Culture – Sublime

Just Like You

Daisy Stenham — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:42:11 +0000

You would think that a clothing brand called ‘Citizens of Humanity’ would involve borderline unwearable hemp outfits sewn together with the sanctimonious salvia of annoying West Coast hippies. But no, this Citizens of Humanity is that achingly cool Californian brand that spin out more than one million pairs of jeans a year. One person is...

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It’s What’s Inside That Counts

John Grant — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:24:56 +0000

If we could only persuade people to be more dutiful, more moral, more ethical. The trouble is – on the evidence of numerous past attempts – we can’t. And the irony may be that we don’t have to. Armed with the right information and understanding, most people will do the decent thing, most of the...

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What’s Your Problem?

John Grant — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:58:08 +0000

What is the problem with Western culture? How is it we have become so stuck? I’d like to suggest that, gasp, our core issue as a culture is actually our obsession with solving problems. We are a self-help society, and not just in the New Age section of the bookshop, but in the entire Western...

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The Selfish Society

laurasan — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:54:00 +0000

A pyschotherapist, Gerhardt looks at how our society, culture and politics got to where they are today, and her diagnosis – that individualism has confused material well-being for happiness, that community, care and family have been superceded by self-interest, self-absorption and self-centredness – is succint and timely. The forces of the late stages of capitalism, Gerhardt argues,...

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The Filter Bubble

laurasan — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:14:00 +0000

Facebook, Google et al are engaged with monitoring our online activities to second-guess our consumer desires. Through the passing-on of information about us to companies, we are spied on, packaged up and sold down river to advertisers and marketing companies while we unknowingly click away. Eli Paliser lays bare the implications of this process, skilfully unpacking how...

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Minding My Peas and Cucumbers

laurasan — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:31:14 +0000

Kay Sexton’s idealistic vision of self-sufficiency is rudely shattered by immersion into the alien and hostile world of archaic rules and regulations, hosepipe standoffs, competitive vegetable-growing and biblical-scale pest invasions. However, when she scrapes the mud off her caked wellingtons, she begins to find her way, and the feeling is all the sweeter for having...

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Co-opportunity

Laura Santamaria — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Tucked away somewhere towards the middle of Co-opportunity is a consummate quote by Vaclav Havel, playwright and former leader of the Czech Republic: ‘Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as...

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