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Some buskers:

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Brixton buskers – Undergrooveland street music collective outside Brixton tube station
 
Maybe they should have re badged the McDonalds as a "Pret" (which after all they have a controlling share in).

If Brixton is as vibrant and upmarket as everyone seems to think it is, surely a Pret would be more suitable?
 
Manter said:
:( it is a bit rubbish! It's a wholesaler doing us a favour, but yeah, pretty dire customer experience! They are normally good at sorting stuff out though. And they do turn up in the right place- I've been in the warehouse before when they turn up and it's quite exciting!

Thankyou so much! We were at 418 sleeping bags when I went to bed.... So nearly half the target. This will have helped us loads

Thankyou
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The website is cranky but to be fair they replied to my email by 7.30am and all is good. They expect to deliver early next week.
 
bimble said:
have you seen the website ? It's worse than you might imagine.
You get to play at living in a dehumanising vaguely kafkaesque type world.. their website promises a parallel universe where "The government rations and controls everything to keep things tidy .".
Far out.:facepalm:
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I bet it's not even a proper oubliette (fondles book on medieval punishments and tortures), just a cellar! :mad:
 
Gramsci said:
Not that far fetched. Last flu epidemic was after WW1. Spread by people returning home after war. Killed more than died in the war. So far science has stopped any real epidemics. As well as better public health safeguards to stop disease spreading. But as you say drugs are not keeping up that well with possible next epidemic. With increased globalisation in last hundred years disease can spread more easily. As with AIDS. Which fortunately was not airborne virus.

As for population growth Dorling is an optimistic. (But he has his critics). Basically he argues that world population growth is reaching a plateau and will stop increasing.

As this discussion started off with Manter asking about halal meat he has interesting things to say about migration:
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Dorling tends to skirt around living under neoliberal capitalism being a reason for birth-rate decline. Doreen Massey (the doyenne of social geographers) was considerably more blunt about the effects of a transition in working class households from single breadwinner to the need for two wages.
 
Angellic said:
Outrage over 'offensive' graffiti interior at Brixton McDonald's
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Rayner is right: Fake tagging.

This is example of big business co opting street culture. They are likely to have hired media types to advise them on how to update there image.

I was reading the Network Rail planning application and they are going to do the same thing. They ( without irony) say the recent street art on the shutters is popular and are going to do something similar on one section of the refurbished arches. ( Thats if they can get any self respecting street artist to do it.)
 
Gramsci said:
Rayner is right: Fake tagging.

This is example of big business co opting street culture. They are likely to have hired media types to advise them on how to update there image.

I was reading the Network Rail planning application and they are going to do the same thing. They ( without irony) say the recent street art on the shutters is popular and are going to do something similar on one section of the refurbished arches. ( Thats if they can get any self respecting street artist to do it.)
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Some street artists don't exactly help the alt/outsider cause by taking on commissions to paint 'edgy' art on the shutters of estate agents etc, IMO.
 
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Some street artists don't exactly help the alt/outsider cause by taking on commissions to paint 'edgy' art on the shutters of estate agents etc, IMO.
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There is a debate within street art about commercialisation.

"Tagging" is non commercial. I think it started out in New York as was more about how many places one could leave ones tag without getting caught by police. So it was really underground scene. Became more difficult to do as police and local authorities clamped down on it.

I am not that keen on tagging. As do not find it interesting to look at. But it has its followers. Why the Mcdonald use of it is so false. Tagging is about leaving ones individual mark outside the law. For those in the scene a tag makes known who did it. Its an act of bravado. Or a way in a society that is harsh to many - like US- to regain ones individuality by tagging at night.

Street Art is different. Some street artists do it to get known, make a name and get a gallery show. That is street art is stepping stone to getting paid.

Most street artists mix commercial and non commercial work. Also some street art is now "legit" and I think some street artist get commissioned to do there own art work. As at the street art wall in Shoreditch.

Syria is an interesting case. As the street artists there helped start out the demos against Assad. They got arrested and tortured. Street art in dictatorships is political. One risks a lot doing it.

The problem in free market capitalist democracies is that everything oppositional can be co opted.
 
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The Bowie street art on Morleys is good example of street art. He did it with permission of Morleys but did not get paid for it.

Now its spontaneously taken a life of its own as a shrine to Bowie.
 
ViolentPanda said:
Dorling tends to skirt around living under neoliberal capitalism being a reason for birth-rate decline. Doreen Massey (the doyenne of social geographers) was considerably more blunt about the effects of a transition in working class households from single breadwinner to the need for two wages.
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I don’t really understand why Dorling writes in the way he does. I have heard him interviewed and he says he want to provide reasoned argument- academic rigour- and that he would like to write a book that has a good go at neo liberal society. So he separates academic neutrality and politics.

So I agree he skirts around neo liberalism. Makes him a frustrating read sometimes. As he is good at assembling persuasive arguments.

Massey I haven’t read. What would u recommend?
 
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