- RSA Animate Zizek
- Breaking the billions of dollars textbook market
- ‘imagination is not only about fiction: it is integral to our painful progress in separating fiction from fact’
- Adam Curtis: The Readl Mad Men ‘Experiments in the laboratory of consumerism 1959-67’
- ‘Nudge…came at a convenient moment for free-market capitalism. It argues that there’s nothing wrong with markets, only with people, and the state’s role is to make people fit for markets, not the other way about. Cameron
- Johann Hari: The management consultancy scam ‘labour productivity growth was much higher in the countries where it is hardest to fire people’
- ‘What Social Science Does—and Doesn’t—Know’ (and why)
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One reply on “Links for August 2010”
The Zizek talk is a wonderful illustration of the mechanisms Norman Cohn explains in “The Pursuit of the Millennium”. It’s impossible not to be touched, because he appeals to our most dangerous part: our longing for purity.