Posts Tagged ‘China’
money: insignia of the experience of purchase
April 11th, 2010 by lifeproof
I know that I am a bit late to write this post by more than a decade, but an article reminded me of all these things that I keep on saying. In that article the author refers to this book a few times, which I recently became aware of: The Art of Money: The History and Design [...]
Tags: abstract transaction, abstraction of the economic exchange, abstraction of the moment of exchange, abstraction of the ritual of physical exchange, Anatolia, Apologue, Bank of Sweden, banknote, China, conspicuous consumption, economic exchange, emergence of paper money, Europe, experience design, first usage of paper money, Jean Baudrillard, Lydians, metal coins, Netherlands, paper money, Parsons School of Design, Pierre Bourdieu, Song Dynasty, Spanish Siege at Leyden, Stockholms Banco, Tali Krakowsky, The Art of Money, The Art of Money: The History and Design of Paper Currency from Around the World, The History and Design of Paper Currency from Around the World, the moment of exchange, The New School, The New School Parsons School of Design, The Theory of Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen, wherewithal of exchange
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
google is a country: indeed
February 1st, 2010 by lifeproof
I thought that this topic would have already been saturated in the blogosphere and the social-media-sphere, but in contrary, except for The Huffington Post and The Guardian almost no other outstanding media has issued the subject. Alan Rusbridger from The Guardian reports: Google is not a country. Eric Schmidt – who would be prime minister if [...]
Tags: Advertising Age, Alan Rusbridger, Chad Hurley, China, Craig Newmark, David Drummond, Davos, Davos Economic Forum, Eric Schmidt, existence of virtual beings, Google, Google is a country, Google vs. China, Googledom, Hal Varian, Marissa Mayer, Newspaper Association of America, Nikesh Arora, Pew Research Center, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, UC Berkeley, virtual existence, virtual existence of real beings
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virtual protest march on google maps
January 26th, 2010 by lifeproof
I have written an article on the dispute between Google and China for a Turkish newspaper the last week. I stated that The Great Firewall of China was not much different than the firewall that the Turkish conservative government has built around us. When I first returned to Turkey this summer after spending two years [...]
Tags: AKP, ban on YouTube, bobiler.org, China, Google, Google Docs, google maps, Istanbul, New York, New York City, ReadWriteWeb, Tayyip Erdogan, The Great Firewall of China, Turkey, virtual protest, virtual protest march, YouTube
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PinPoint
Tayyip ♥ Mahmoud
October 28th, 2009 by lifeproof
The Guardian was very surprised to hear from Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan to say that Iran (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad) is a friend of Turkey. It is quite surprising for me to see that they are surprised at this statement. This friendship was obvious, inevitable–and to be fair: quite logical. I have been saying continuously, even before [...]
Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Democratic initiative, Iran, Israel, Kurdish, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Mesopotamia, Russia, Syria, Tayyip Erdogan, Tehran, the East, the EU, The Guardian, the West, Turkey
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles