Posts Tagged ‘Europe’
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
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The Kurdish Solution
August 28th, 2009 by lifeproof
Turkey, the country, has left everything aside and is debating and arguing on if and how the Kurdish minority problem may be solved for a month or so. The Kurdish problem has been a long standing problem, which has also been an issue in the last terms of the Ottoman Empire. It has been ignored [...]
Tags: Europe, European Union, Kurdish initiative, Kurdish solution, Kurdistan, Nabucco, Nabucco pipeline, natural gas, oil, Ottoman Empire, Russia, the Middle East, Turkey, Turkish Republic
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Putin in Turkey
August 6th, 2009 by lifeproof
Putin will not be able to say that anymore Today Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in Turkey to make connections on various topics among which the energy issue seems to be the most important. It is not very interesting to see Putin come to Turkey today, after Turkey and a number of other countries–and [...]
Tags: Armenia, Europe, European Union, Kurdistan, Nabucco, NATO, natural gas, petrol, PKK, Silvio Berlusconi, the Middle East, Turkey, Vladimir Putin
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Monkey Business in London
March 30th, 2009 by lifeproof
While the economic recession is giving all leaders around the globe a hard time, Obama seeks support from his European counterparts for the stimulus plan. He departed towards London with hope in his heart and rabbit foot in his pocket, but the people on the streets of London are not so hopeful–and they do not [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, economic crisis, economic recession, Europe, G20, London, Obama, protest, stimulus plan
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