How many people remember the days when the purpose of television commercials was to sell audiences some newfangled product they didn’t even realize they needed as opposed to some dangerous agenda? It seems we’re losing those memories fast.
It has become far too popular among North Americans to look cynically upon the developments occurring in Eurasia and Africa today under the guidance of China’s One Belt One Road Initiative as simply another form of imperialism which is preparing to replace the Anglo-American imperial order that has controlled the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It has been another curious week of half-truths, spin and outright falsehood as culture commentators get to grips with recent...
It has been another curious week of half-truths, spin and outright falsehood as culture commentators get to grips with recent...
All things considered, it seems appropriate that GQ, once the final word on male fashions, chose the Halloween season to detail the ‘new masculinity,’ which is nothing less than horrible, grotesque and, yes, even sinister.
Do you think the folks in Chinatown were as bothered by Will Witt’s Halloween getup as the non-Chinese college students were?
What has the ‘international style of architecture’ – now going out of fashion – but which arose as a universalist aesthetic intended as a weapon to counter the nationalist upheavals at the turn of the 20th century, got to do with today’s geo-politics?
Well – more than might be imagined.
Andre VLTCHEK
Many have already noticed: The U.S. really, really doesn’t feel like the world leader, or even as a ‘first world country’. Of course, I write that sarcastically, as I detest expressions like ‘first world’, and the ‘third world’. But readers know what I mean.
Thanks to some sort of genetic luck I have zero fear of public speaking, in fact I see it as a fun challenge of how I can convey my ideas to the audience mostly in a second language – Russian. As someone who has worked in the Russian media for quite some time I am very often asked to discuss media influence and information warfare. Russian intellectuals of the patriotic variety can see that their country needs a strong military to become powerful and respected again.
How the video game industry has grown into a $139 billion a year business and a cultural force.
