Lösung (J.M. Coetzee, 'Disgrace')
2008-03-23
Sunday has come again. He and Bev Shaw are engaged in one of their sessions of Lösung.
Asides
Heiyang is a Beijing-based artist and good friend. His current series of oil paintings depict the inhabitants of a silent world of ‘bird-people’. Heiyangart.com.
The Fall frontman on everything from drugs to fatherhood. Mark E Smith’s Guide to life.
If you care about hunger, eat less meat. The Pleasures of the Flesh.
The government’s plans for clean coal are another great green scam. Burnt Out.
Mashing statistics and art is Seattle-based Chris Jordan, who has produced these amazing and profoundly depressing visualisations of the resources we use and the waste we produce. Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait.
The world is finite. We won’t change this with vegan shoes and hybrid cars, no matter how green. We need to make second-hand shoes and public transportation our fashion statement. Otherwise, we’re just Greening The Titanic.
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