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cheap: the aeroflotification of capitalism4 comments

adswithoutproducts wrote 3 months ago: Frederick Studemann argued recently in the FT that Aeroflot in the 1970s was a forerunner of the low … more →

Tags: austerity, Distraction, Economics

sontag glosses the girlfriend experience / nyc trustafarians9 comments

adswithoutproducts wrote 6 months ago: From the journals, from the start of 1959: The ugliness of New York. But I do like it here, even lik … more →

Tags: Movies, NYC, Work and unemployment

the girlfriend experience: "this number is the nadir of passion"5 comments

adswithoutproducts wrote 6 months ago: I really liked The Girlfriend Experience, but this is perhaps attributable to the fact that I am ult … more →

Tags: infra-interesting, Movies, NYC, Work and unemployment

notes from the golden country2 comments

adswithoutproducts wrote 10 months ago: Was just thinking, while outside for the upteenth time to smoke today, that sometimes, lately, my li … more →

the secret life of investment bankers1 comment

adswithoutproducts wrote 1 year ago: Somehow, accidentally, the movie Boarding Gate snuck from the bottom to the top of my mail rental li … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Distraction, Movies

my bank branches: a brief memoir13 comments

adswithoutproducts wrote 1 year ago: My parents, to this day, still don’t believe that they can use their ATM cards at banks not th … more →

Tags: repetition compulsion, Economics, Crisis

"you would think they were praying to it"

adswithoutproducts wrote 1 year ago: A young man whose English is of rather recent vintage has been coming around just about every other … more →

Tags: Economics, simplicity

city as satire

adswithoutproducts wrote 1 year ago: NYT on a new and enormous Koolhaas project in Dubai. (We’re all going to have to start thinkin … more →

Tags: Architecture, Design, Dubai, Generic, repetition compulsion

nostalgie de la boom... and ads without ads8 comments

adswithoutproducts wrote 1 year ago: My wife and I have introduced a thing where each of us takes one night a week out by ourselves while … more →

Tags: catastrophe, Movies, repetition compulsion

coal smoke and scary statues1 comment

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: From the boilerplate describing the newest entry in the SimCity series of games, SimCity Societies … more →

Tags: Socialism

wallstalgie / wallfallstalgie

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: Within the course of a few days, Putin gets the Tupolevs circling and circling again, and the the we … more →

Tags: repetition compulsion

"have you been to the edge?": photo caption contest

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: Need more interactivity, hereabouts. Donc a photo for you to caption: The NYT explains what the imag … more →

Tags: Ads, Uncanny

laissez half-emptyism? the cycle never sets on structural reform? capitalism vs. GDP etc...1 comment

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: There really should be a word for neoliberal eitherorism of this sort. Just as, in the US, tax cuts … more →

Tags: Work and unemployment, rationalization

red net1 comment

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: Excellent piece today on opendemocracy by Richard Barbrook which recounts the strange history of the … more →

Tags: Design, Socialism

same guy

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: Amazing find by SEK at Acephalous… … more →

20121 comment

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: Rather hilarious stuff today coming out of the release of the 2012 London Olympic symbol logo brand … more →

Tags: Ads

ads without products, products without qualities3 comments

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: On his IHT blog, Daniel Altman wrote the other day about the strangeness of the big banks’ glo … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Ads

too sexy for my jackboots

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: From wikipedia (via an excellent post at design observer)… Hugo Boss established his company i … more →

Tags: Design

bêtise1 comment

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: The New York Observer is to the realm of print journalism what Cops is to television programing. Bot … more →

Tags: Marketing, Literature


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