Gene wrote: "Pen'L's own Sandwichman has been on this flaneur thing big time."
Yep. "Just as the department store is his [the flaneur's] last haunt, so his last incarnation is as sandwichman." On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Pen-l, on environmental blogs, in pundit pronouncements, carbon pricing > and massive technological investments dominate the discussion. > > Even if any and/or all of that would work to prevent runaway global > warming (and it won't) we'd have, most likely, business as usual with clean > energy. > > Why the single perspective on technology? Even carbon pricing depends for > results on a technology change. > > Why do we need more energy? Why do we need as much as the world now uses? > > A NYTimes essay today, "Sign of the Times | Look Out, It’s Instagram Envy" > > > Instagram has created a new kind of voyeurism — in which you can look > into the carefully curated windows of the rich, famous and stylish — and a > new kind of lifestyle envy. > > > > “The department store is the last promenade for the flâneur,” wrote > Walter Benjamin, the German critic, whose impossible project — “The Arcades > Project,” more precisely — documented street life in Paris after the > Industrial Revolution. He wrote of gleaming wants, windows gazing back at > him, shoppers and wanderers alike becoming reflections of their desires. > “The crowd,” he wrote, “is the veil through which the familiar city beckons > to the flâneur as phantasmagoria — as a landscape, now as a room. Both > become elements of the department store, which makes use of flâneurie > itself to sell goods.” > > Full article at: > http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/sign-of-the-times-look-out-its-instagram-envy/?hp&_r=0 > > Pen'L's own Sandwichman has been on this flaneur thing big time. > > Green House Gas (GHG) emissions won't be curbed, let alone reduced, until > consumption is reduced. Which is to say, income is reduced. > > Which, if addressed through aggressive reductions in working hours in the > North, can be accomplished without hardship and with economic justice. > There will be no environmental justice without economic justice and no > stopping global warming without both. > > Gene > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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