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Frances Ha, Modern Love & The Commercialization of Dissent

July 23, 2014 By Useful Ideas Project Leave a Comment

Frances Halladay is dancing down Catherine Street in New York, her body moving in time to David Bowie's Modern Love: Bowie sings: Modern love - walks beside meModern love - walks on byModern love - gets me to the church on timeChurch on time - terrifies meChurch on time - makes me partyChurch on time - puts my trust in god and manGod and man - no confessionsGod and man … [Read more...] about Frances Ha, Modern Love & The Commercialization of Dissent

Review: The Men Who Made Us Spend. Putting the con into consumerism?

July 11, 2014 By Useful Ideas Project 2 Comments

The Men Who Made Us Spend

In The Men Who Made Us Spend BBC TV programmes, journalist Jacques Peretti presents his evidence, and offers no simple solutions. Back in 2002, when previewing Adam Curtis' The Century of the Self TV programmes, Bryan Appleyard wrote: "The Century of the Self is a startling revelation of the way things that we take for granted are, in fact, the result of specific ideas and … [Read more...] about Review: The Men Who Made Us Spend. Putting the con into consumerism?

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