Advertising – or how a society views itself

Have you heard of Adam Curtis? He’s a BBC documentary maker, and his work fascinates me. His series tend to focus on societies and their relationships with power, and especially on how different techniques from game theory to psychoanalysis have been used to manipulate it. The shows are well recommended and have a good mix of [...]

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Flying up and falling down – building India-style

Here’s a view of beautiful Gurgaon. The city is on the outskirts of Delhi and is one of the Indian capital’s IT hubs. I’m out here on business at the moment, and I’m struck by something that first hit me last year in the Bangalore. It seems India has only two types of buildings – those [...]

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