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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Side effects of the consumption
-> Side effects of the consumptionIn 2003 opened the 50th Venice Biennale directed by Francesco Bonami, in my opinion one of the best editions in the recent years. Stimulated by the subtitle of his exhibition "The Dictatorship of the Viewer", illywords asked Bonami if the classical rules of marketing used by a consumption oriented company can also fit the art world. He answered...
continue..What’s on (March 29)
-> What's on (March 29)This week's What's On - your weekly collection of exhibits, articles, and things art and design. This week, two interesting exhibits in Milan and Torino, and two articles "in black and white on pink" (you'll see what I mean below!). This week March 27 2010 to February 28, 2011, Milano: Id-Lab and m&a are contributing to the important exhi...
continue..Bonami’s “glomanticism”
Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the ConsumptionIs there any correspondence between the pseudo needs of a consumer and a visitor's needs? Visitors do not have pseudo needs but rather unexpressed or repressed needs, if any; on the contrary, consumers almost always have needs that are falsely generated by the external impulses of the economic and social context. To the world of consumption, visi...
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