Tag: essay
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7000 Words About The Refragmentation Of The Economy
One advantage of being old is that you can see change happen in your lifetime. A lot of the change I’ve seen is fragmentation. US politics is much more polarized than it used to be. Culturally we have ever less common ground. The creative class flocks to a handful of happy cities, abandoning the rest.…
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The Strength Of The Past And Its Great Might
Within the last generation, archaeology has undergone a major transformation, developing from an independent small-scale activity, based upon museums and a few university departments, into a large-scale state organization based upon national legislation. This has entailed an increase in resources on an unprecedented scale, and has drastically changed the profile of archaeology, which is now…
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The Royal Ontario Museum Publishes Cloth That Changed The World: The Art And Fashion Of Indian Chintz
New book explores the story of India’s richly coloured textiles ahead of ROM original exhibition Photography by Tina Weltz TORONTO — The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce the publication of Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz on December 2, 2019. The collection of essays explores the far-reaching influence this vividly printed…
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How Societies Become Consumer Cultures Through Housing
Alfred Marshall’s (Principles of Economics, 1891) view of housing still goes right to the heart of what makes housing and built environment an important anthropological topic. No artifact is so clearly multi-functional, simultaneously a utilitarian object of absolute necessity, and an item of symbolic material culture, a text of almost unending complexity. In every house…
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Streaming Companies Spotify And Labels Sony Making The Money Not Artists
Potter Box Definition: Is it ethical for media streaming companies, such as Spotify, to take advantage of IP loopholes, which are known to negatively impact artist revenues? Values: >Balance & Fairness >Legal Values Loyalties: a. Duty to service b. Duty to subscribers c. Duty to shareholders d. Duty to Intellectual Property e. Duty to Art…
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Elementary Forces By Timothy deVries
What is a corner? The corner represents a symbolic value. Children are told to stand in the corner when they are disobedient. The corner is a place where one meditates on one’s shortcomings. One can be ‘backed into a corner’ and left with few options or one can retreat into a corner for safety. Animals…
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Window Fishing Or The Night We Caught Beatlemania
A Silo Canuck Book Review I’ve never particularly been a Beatle’s fan. I like some of their songs. I like a number of them very much, but if I was asked the now proverbial question, “The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?” I would probably say, Oh, I don’t know, maybe The Who? The body of…