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  • Date posted: October 28, 2007

    Market Metaphors

    Record oil price leaves bears running for cover. Wall Street rebounds as inflation fears ease. World stocks rally after Fed’s rate cut. Dow Jones flirts with new high.

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  • Date posted: October 27, 2007

    A Kiss on the Eye

    On one of my meanderings around the web I came across this photo by Janine Antoni entitled “Mortar and Pessle”. It reminded me of an essay by Jacques Derrida on the work of Jean-Luc Nancy.

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  • Date posted: October 21, 2007

    Olivier Rolin, The Invention of the World

    The Invention of the World is a novel like no other. To say that it is ambitious is an understatement. But it succeeds in every aspect.

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  • Date posted: October 20, 2007

    London

    Some of my favourite restaurants in London.

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Recent Posts
  • Holland Animation Film festival 2008

    As with every edition of the Holland Animation Film festival there were too many films. And also as with every edition the films ranged from hilarious, touching and stunning to boring, tedious and outright dreadful.

  • I'm a Cyborg But That's OK

    I'm a cyborg is yet another highly intelligent movie by Park Chan-wook. It's also a visual treat and in its own special way profoundly moving.

  • Escaped from Malthus?

    Supplementary material for my review of Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms; Paul Collier: The Bottom Billion; and Dani Rodrik: One Economics, Many Recipes.

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