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Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Bright Lights, Big City….and Blaring Noise. March 2010. Below is the uncut version. Mark your calendar right now – International Noise Awareness Day is coming April 28th. Chiang Mai will be promoting this event to the max, with speakers ramped to ear-splitting levels. Yeah, that’s how we do it here. Now in Bangkok, on the other hand, there’s a group that might be raising a little cane at the slightest whiff of sound. And who might these contrarians be? It’s a movement whose ...
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The Parham Reader: March 2010
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010. To Inform You, Not to Amuse You. At the recent World Economic Forum at Davos – the world’s largest gathering of economic experts who ponder extreme scenarios and drink a lot of expresso – an unexpected person was in attendance: Margaret Atwood, one of the world’s finest contemporary writers. Fictional societies of extreme socio-political repression had already been described in two well-known classics, Huxley’s. 1932) and George Orwell’s. Huxley said about the fictive world he cre...
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Axis Asia: February 2013
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Monday, February 25, 2013. Chronique de Thaïlande : où est la justice? Le verdict contre Somyot Preuksakasemsuk confirme la dérive de l’appareil judiciaire en Thaïlande. Quand on ne parvient pas à convaincre par la persuasion, on essaie d’imposer par la force, écrivait le philosophe britannique Bertrand Russel dans son livre. Le verdict de la Cour pénale de Bangkok. Alors pourquoi une partie des juges s’enferrent-ils dans cette logique destructrice? Wednesday, February 20, 2013. Thanon ba-ret . Kosa ...