Monthly Archives: June 2007

One More Month Off The Island And I’ll Have Carrots For Breakfast…

By Jens Haas | Published: June 30, 2007
This from earlier this week, from the plains. While, on a hot summer day in Manhattan, car and bus engines run relentlessly (often without a driver present), and air condition blasts away so that the planet’s energy resources deplete faster than the battery level of my notebook (that is without the current power outages of [...]
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Retro Food, By Mara L.

By Mara L. | Published: June 28, 2007
One thing I like about remote places in Italy (I am far south right now, in a small place near Napoli), is a certain presence of the 1950ies. Some ‘bars’, as the standard Italian café is called, are pretty much unchanged. No pedantic ‘authenticity’, no. There’s no intention to ‘be retro’, to imitate a certain [...]
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Life Was Hairy Before Epilady

By Jens Haas | Published: June 25, 2007
What is the difference between things and objects? In one of my other lives, I often find myself being employed as an informal commentator on drafts of philosophy talks/papers/books, and today I feel I have to share a brief excerpt (bear with me for a second before I get to it) with you. This is [...]
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