FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 28/04/2009
Cluetrainers In The Age Of Conversation This post is my contribution to the “Cluetrain Plus Ten” project, in which 95 bloggers provide commentary on each of the 95 Theses of the Cluetrain Manifesto. I chose Thesis 15, which runs as follows: “In just a few more years, the current homogenized “voice” of business—the sound of mission [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 31/01/2009
Born in 1900, Sándor Márai wrote 46 books before he fled communist Hungary in 1948. In obscurity in California, he shot himself in 1989 without witnessing the fall of communism or the rediscovery of his work. Since Roberto Calasso championed Embers as a lost masterpiece in 1998, four of Márai's novels have become available in English. Unlike Embers - rushed into English from the...
Limited, Inc. (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
“Post history is inhabited by men who believe in “good causes”, in “man”, in “society”, in many other hypostases. But, it is ruled by a mocking (and perhaps transcendental) being for whom all is material, interchangeable, exploitable – a perpetual manipulator who invents forms and throws them away, who quickly tires of common materials and is always looking...
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