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Cheap: the aeroflotification of capitalism
Frederick Studemann argued recently in the FT that Aeroflot in the 1970s was a forerunner of the low-cost, low-service airlines of today. Not only was it far more extensive and cheaper than in the wes… more →
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cheap: the aeroflotification of capitalism
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adswithoutproducts wrote 3 months ago: Frederick Studemann argued recently in the FT that Aeroflot in the 1970s was a forerunner of the low … more →
sontag glosses the girlfriend experience / nyc trustafarians
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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 →
the girlfriend experience: "this number is the nadir of passion"
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adswithoutproducts wrote 6 months ago: I really liked The Girlfriend Experience, but this is perhaps attributable to the fact that I am ult … more →
notes from the golden country
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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 bankers
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adswithoutproducts wrote 1 year ago: Somehow, accidentally, the movie Boarding Gate snuck from the bottom to the top of my mail rental li … more →
my bank branches: a brief memoir
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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 →
"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 →
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 →
nostalgie de la boom... and ads without ads
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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 →
coal smoke and scary statues
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adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: From the boilerplate describing the newest entry in the SimCity series of games, SimCity Societies … more →
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 →
"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 →
laissez half-emptyism? the cycle never sets on structural reform? capitalism vs. GDP etc...
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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 →
red net
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adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: Excellent piece today on opendemocracy by Richard Barbrook which recounts the strange history of the … more →
same guy
adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: Amazing find by SEK at Acephalous… … more →
2012
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adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: Rather hilarious stuff today coming out of the release of the 2012 London Olympic symbol logo brand … more →
ads without products, products without qualities
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adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: On his IHT blog, Daniel Altman wrote the other day about the strangeness of the big banks’ glo … more →
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 →
bêtise
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adswithoutproducts wrote 2 years ago: The New York Observer is to the realm of print journalism what Cops is to television programing. Bot … more →
