Posts Tagged ‘globalisation’

“Their” Africa

Magazine -> #13 Conscious project

Burgeoning China and India are very much in the political and economic limelight lately. This once again means that Africa and its tragic conditions are put to shade, being considered little more than a source of natural riches ready for the pickings. This interview with the anthropologist Marco Aime, who spends long periods in Africa for his studi...

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Ecology Economy Ecumenism

Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecology

You’ve written that one of the tragic circumstances befalling our times is the fracture dividing the economy, ecology and ecumenism. The modern world in its Western, dominant and domineering version is characterised by a separation into spheres. That’s both its strength, because such differentiation allows for greater rationality and freedom, ...

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The choice of time

Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboards

After thirty years spent in Asia as correspondent for Der Spiegel and collaborator for Italian newspapers, Tiziano Terzani has definitely not lost one bit of the intense warmth and the impetus of his homeland, Tuscany. These characteristics however, are now mingled with the peaceful and ascetic wisdom that has been transferred onto him by the cult...

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BMW: a naturally sustainable leader

Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecology

There are certain criteria involved in buying a car nowadays; some of these we could define as “mathematical”, such as price or performance, easily comparable between makes and models. There are also more subjective factors, that depend on our personal tastes, such as the shape, or the combination of lines and colours that define a car’s styl...

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Interview with Jannis Kounellis

Magazine -> #9 Coopetition

You've asserted, to use your words, that "a journey, any journey, is essentially an initiation, an affirmative and conscious statement of love for knowledge". Would you say an artist sets out on such a journey alone? Is it necessarily a solitary journey or can it be undertaken with other artists as travel companions? Well, it's difficult to say. ...

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A story-telling artist

Magazine -> #9 Coopetition

Introduction by Angela Vettese, art critic and journalist. A toy train emerges from the mouth of Jannis Kounellis. No, it's not a return to one's childhood. It's rather a way of acknowledging to what extent the great railroad age, the age that revolutionised freighting, the age when corn used to travel in jute sacks loaded in cars running on ste...

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  • "Where I am, makes me what I am"

    Anonymous at Galleria illy London

  • “The time is always right to do the right thing”

    Martin Luther King

  • "Liberty is about our rights to question everything".

    Ai Wei Wei

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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...
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