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Reads tagged with “politics”

Cartograms: Making a Point with Distorted Maps
Cartograms: Making a Point with Distorted Maps

Why space is relative and how popular media are making entire continents disappear.

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The Art of Protest
The Art of Protest

Control vs. chaos, democratic deficits, or why modernity breeds toothless anarchy.

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The Century of the Self: A Fascinating BBC Documentary About the Rise of Consumerism and Democracy
The Century of the Self: A Fascinating BBC Documentary About the Rise of Consumerism and Democracy

An four-part probe into the depths of consumerism and democracy, and how those in power used Freud’s theories to manipulate the masses.

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The Story of Cap & Trade
The Story of Cap & Trade

What lurks beneath the buzzwords and how to digest the hard-to-swallow.

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Gift Guide Part One: Books
Gift Guide Part One: Books

How to be a cool and cultured polyglot of a friend and friend of the polyglot.

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The Works Progress Administration: Timeless Lessons on Design and Government from the 1930s
The Works Progress Administration: Timeless Lessons on Design and Government from the 1930s

What the digging of ditches has to do with design history and the recession.

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Highlights from TED 2010, Day One
Highlights from TED 2010, Day One

What one pound of tuna has to do with five years of chocolate milk, spider silk and a ukulele.

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Chart Wars: The Steering Power of Data Visualization
Chart Wars: The Steering Power of Data Visualization

Data-washing, why designers are not to be messed with, and how seeing really is believing.

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Moving Minimalism: Solitary Confinement
Moving Minimalism: Solitary Confinement

What Iraqi oil and Swiss filmmaking have to do with the nature of creativity.

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The Wall In My Head: Words & Art from the Fall of the Iron Curtain
The Wall In My Head: Words & Art from the Fall of the Iron Curtain

What fallen checkpoints have to do with a generation of artists.

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