Brusa: Romance and a Tragedy

Superconsumer, a postmodern romance

“Postmodernism” is a key word today, wielded by philosophers, cultural theorists, artists, people in the media, and intellectuals in general. When most people talk about postmodernism, they envisage the revolutionary imagery of our life and times— information revolution, hyperglobalisation, and consumerist culture—and they herewith feel the risks, anxieties, and ills associated with life in the...

A Greek summer tragedy

Fires have raged across southern Europe during the exceptional heat of this summer but in Greece, where they have been particularly severe and widespread, they caught the authorities by surprise. They have been occurring over weeks from late June in the forests of the north to Crete in the south. They are doubly troubling because of Greece's dramatic biodiversity — more than 25 per cent of an e...

A Russian Tragedy

Traveling through the global computing community, we tend to see fundamental uniformity and super cial variation. Our international colleagues solve the same kinds of problems that we do. Our devices can link to the local Wi-Fi network, even though some people pronounce it “wee-fee.” Our data and programs slip into distant countries without even slowing for a customs inspection at the border. W...

Suicide A Global Tragedy

Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries