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“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth”. – Understanding Media (1964), p. 46
By Tristan Eldritch
Continue reading ““Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World””by Ashley Mears
(Photo: Coco Rocha in Bill Blass by Peter Som February 2008, Photographed by Ed Kavishe for Fashion Wire Press, and is licensed under creative commons.)
In 2002, a tall and skinny 14-year old girl competed in a dance contest in Vancouver, Canada. There she encountered a modeling agent, who asked her to consider going out for modeling jobs. Today, the 22-year-old Coco Rocha is celebrated as a “supermodel” (however little of its glamazon power the term retains these days), appearing on covers of Vogue and i-D magazines, on catwalks from Marc Jacobs to Prada, and as the star face for Dior, H&M, and Chanel. You might not recognize her name, but the chances are you’ve seen Coco Rocha in the past few years.
Continue reading “How Supermodels Are like Toxic Assets”https://www.economist.com/leaders/2010/03/04/gendercide
Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising
IMAGINE you are one half of a young couple expecting your first child in a fast-growing, poor country. You are part of the new middle class; your income is rising; you want a small family. But traditional mores hold sway around you, most important in the preference for sons over daughters. Perhaps hard physical labour is still needed for the family to make its living. Perhaps only sons may inherit land. Perhaps a daughter is deemed to join another family on marriage and you want someone to care for you when you are old. Perhaps she needs a dowry.
Continue reading “Gendercide – The war on baby girls”Life is often hard for internal migrants in China, especially those from Henan and the north-east
THE SCHOOLCHILDREN started to vomit. Some fell unconscious and were whisked into hospital. Angry parents demanded an explanation. The food-poisoning scandal quickly lit up Chinese social media. A kindergarten teacher in the central province of Henan was detained—accused of adding sodium nitrite, which can be toxic in large doses, to the meal boxes of at least 23 pupils late last month.
Most comments online have focused on the evil of the act and have expressed sympathy for the parents. But a surprising number have noted the alleged perpetrator’s home province. “I’m not surprised. Henan people would stoop to anything,” says one commentator on Baidu Tieba, a social-networking site. “Apart from wicked, I can’t think of another word to describe Henan people,” chimes in someone with more than 50,000 followers on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, who identifies himself as a financial journalist.
Continue reading “Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin”Cecilia Egan @CeciliaEgan1Apr 8
Irelands Fleadh Cheoil 2017. I took this video in my home town of Ennis. Co Clare. Best time ever Aug. 2017.
https://qz.com/work/1589513/how-to-handle-crying-at-work/
If you’ve ever cried at work, you may be able to relate to the recent Saturday Night Live sketch “PowerPoint.” In it, a pair of receptionists played by Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon burst into tears in front of their colleagues at a Microsoft training session as soon as their mock PowerPoint presentation appears on the projector screen. The presentation is, to be fair, not very good. The first page features nothing but layers of empty squares and the desperate lowercase missive, “help.”
“We’re so sorry,” Bryant sobs as the befuddled Microsoft instructors attempt to reassure them. “We made trash, sir,” McKinnon chimes in. “We’re going to be fired and slapped.”
Continue reading “The case for crying at work”https://www.1843magazine.com/technology/test-drive/what-your-method-of-brewing-coffee-says-about-you
Coffee machines aren’t just conveniences, they’re windows into the soul. Jonathan Beckman pours over the options
When political scientists examine the great divide of our age between nativists and cosmopolitans, they can point to a number of underlying causes: unemployment, class, education. But to my mind, the thing most likely to determine on which side you fall is your favoured hot drink. Recent American populism began with the Tea Party, a movement that memorialised direct action to lower the price of a brew. What unites Brexiteers across England, from golf-club bores in Godalming to trawlermen in Grimsby, is the love of a good cuppa. British patriotism has always come sodden in tea. Yorkshire tea is one of the nation’s great oxymorons – a brand that leads tourists to scour the landscape around Pontefract in search of the famous sub-tropical microclimate.
Continue reading “What your method of brewing coffee says about you”有一句话是这么说的：“只有小孩子的世界才分对错，成年人讲究的是得体”。这是一句一下触动我内心的话。我只能遗憾为什么二十年前我没有听到这句话，没有悟出这句话。懂得了那么多的道理，却依然过不好这一生，主要的原因就是我们拿着小孩子的准则和世界观，生活在成年人的世界。连“得体”是什么都不知道，这是一种;两个世界的错误配搭，所以感觉过不好这一生。
Continue reading “得体才是成年世界的唯一准则”
