Art and technology critic Joanne McNeil’s debut work “Lurking” is a trenchant, topical and thoughtful verdict on the incredibly complex but almost symbiotic relationship between digital platforms and users. The adjective lurking, usually employed in a pejorative sense, is however used in an ingenious and original fashion by Ms. McNeil to conflate innocuous prying with … Continue reading Lurking: How a Person Became a User – Joanne McNeil
Month: September 2020
The Hammer
Wokeism, cancellation culture and platform denial are all deemed to be concepts zany; Even though not making an iota of sense to so many A herd mentality grips the homo sapiens as the whole world is a nail Hammers go away flailing in all directions like a viral email While we idiots rant, riot, and … Continue reading The Hammer
The Art of Rest: How to find Respite in The Modern Age – Claudia Hammond
In an utterly compelling and engaging book, “The Art of Rest”, British author, occasional TV presenter, and frequent radio presenter with the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4, Claudia Hammond, takes head on, the one elephant in the room which has been singularly responsible in stymying creativity and exacerbating stress levels in the modern … Continue reading The Art of Rest: How to find Respite in The Modern Age – Claudia Hammond
Man Down – Irma Venter
Alex Derksen is an intrepid reporter who finds himself bang in the middle of the crosshairs of an ugly duel between the South African cops, and hoodlums of the illegal Zama-Zamas illegal mining syndicate. Breathless running and dodging, bruises and scratches, a dead constable, and a bullet lodged in his Kevlar vest later, Alex is … Continue reading Man Down – Irma Venter
13 ½ Reasons Why Not to be a Liberal – Judd Dunning
What could and should have been an engrossing and enlivening book peters out into a discursive assemblage of thoughts. Marinated in right wing ideology and sautéed in its philosophy, “13 ½ Reasons”, is an unashamed paean to Conservatism and the Conservatives. Judd Dunning, in his book, pays exaggerated obeisance to Donald Trump and in the … Continue reading 13 ½ Reasons Why Not to be a Liberal – Judd Dunning
Elevated Economics: How conscious consumers will fuel the future of business – Richard Steel
On the 3rd of January 2020, two of the largest Private Equity funds, KKR and TPG, with a combined asset base of approximately $330bn between them, decided to report by April 2020, both the positive impacts as well as negative externalities, of their investments, on environmental, social and governance aspects. This announcement illustrates the growing … Continue reading Elevated Economics: How conscious consumers will fuel the future of business – Richard Steel
SOCIAL DILEMMA – JEFF ORLOWSKI
If you are wondering how to keep yourself occupied over the coming weekend, fret no more! Netflix might be the solution. Before you exasperatingly throw your hands up and resentfully complain that there is no series or movie remaining to be viewed, and moreover you are experiencing “streaming fatigue”, let me assure you that we … Continue reading SOCIAL DILEMMA – JEFF ORLOWSKI
Revanchist Redux
Keyboard combats, labels and a bewildering culture that 'cancels' Vicious and vituperative, every peaceful overture it repels ; For emblems it has looting and shooting, pillaging and rioting At times enforcers of the very law embracing this new found calling Thereby giving to an insidious pandemic, a complete free reign The world is uncomfortably privy … Continue reading Revanchist Redux
Enduring Jingles of Indian Advertising: Ten Adorable Culprits – PART 2 MONDELEZ INDIA FOODS LIMITED (FORMERLY CADBURY INDIA)
In Part 1 of the series, the focus was on the zest and zeal with which Nerolac India regaled the Indian television viewer with their innovative commercial jingles. Part 2 pays tribute to Cadbury India and their slobber knocker jingle that formed part of the “Shubh Aarambh” (“auspicious beginning”) campaign. Before diving into the jingle, … Continue reading Enduring Jingles of Indian Advertising: Ten Adorable Culprits – PART 2 MONDELEZ INDIA FOODS LIMITED (FORMERLY CADBURY INDIA)
Enduring Jingles of Indian Advertising: Ten Adorable Culprits – PART 1 KANSAI NEROLAC PAINTS INDIA (NEROLAC)
Every one of us has been held hostage, albeit willingly, at some point in time, by that one mesmerizing jingle that keeps playing on loop within the confines of our heads. The damned ditty just refuses to fade away, clinging on to us with the obduracy of a leech. While hanging on to the handrails … Continue reading Enduring Jingles of Indian Advertising: Ten Adorable Culprits – PART 1 KANSAI NEROLAC PAINTS INDIA (NEROLAC)