Kneejerks – Media and Instant Opinion
The media is a powerful force in everything that we do today. Newspapers are read on buses and trains as we travel from one place to another. The radio or television is turned on at breakfast and again in the evening. The internet is accessed and searched at work and in lunch breaks. The world...
The Misuse of Philosophy
When I was on holiday recently, I was in a clothing store shopping for some cheapish t shirts for my daughter. I picked out a couple and took them to wait in the everlasting queue for the checkout. As I was standing there, I stood and looked at the things I was about to buy....
The Urban Forager: A Philosophy of Use
Foraging is a pursuit usually associated with the countryside. When we think of foragers, we think of adults and children standing under huge apple trees in the corner of deserted fields or next to hedges at the side of country roads, with plastic bags in one hand and the other hand sticky, fruit-stained grasping handfuls...
The Sale of Transcendence
If we look around us, it is possible to see that life is a compartmentalised into different spheres. There is a ‘work sphere’; especially geared towards efficient work, with a uniform to distinguish it from the other spheres and a group of ‘others’ included, called colleagues, to wear the uniform with. There is the ‘domestic...
