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Culture, Laissez-faire, New Publishing, Society, Technology
‘ER KOMT NOG MEER CHAOS’ (DUTCH POST)
Culture, Laissez-faire, Literature, Society
Aldous Huxley was a great…
Aldous Huxley was a great writer and novelist. And more than that – he was an essayist as well and maybe one of the best trend forecasters in history. At least he was the best trend-forecaster of the 20th century, I think.
I’ve read a lot of his novels like Island or Eyeless in Gaza. And off course, like everyone of my age I had to read Brave New World at school. All his books are great. Wonderful stories, some more utopian, some less, some more critical, others more poetic, but each of them has been written by its own purpose. And each of them is immersed with realities about people and society. Till now I thought Aldous Huxley was great… Continue Reading
I think Andrew Field is rather cool
I just met Andrew Field in the Selby. And I think he’s rather cool – or ‘hot’ (honestly I prefer the second word for original and passionated people).
More about the Selby’s Andrew Field:
1] He’s a chef at Rockaway Taco in Queens, NY [I think he's a trendsetter, he has the guts to start a hip restaurant in such an upcoming district]; Continue Reading
Laissez-faire, Literature, New Publishing
Into mash-ups
We all mix up things whether consciously or unconsciously. And most of us know that nowadays we have to change the old stuck copyrights for a more “social sharing” habit, called Creative Commons. An article from the magazine Wired (July edition) is just about this topic. Let copyrights go and give writers and/or thinkers the artistic freedom to use and re-use and mashed-up texts. Continue Reading
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