Christmas spending has outpaced inflation and wage growth for decades, with December positioned as the decisive profit window for major retailers. Advertising cycles, gift-card ecosystems, seasonal product ranges, and logistics surges now shape the holiday more than any liturgical calendar. Across the UK, US, and Australia, most households report financial strain, with clear spikes in […]
Notice how the primary cultural differentiation of generational identity is always a commercially-mediated product, idiom or artefact. Can anyone ever truly own their expression of identity, of cultural self when it is always already so much someone else’s possession? Does commercial self-interest (even unwittingly) cultivate a possibility for the emergence of self-identity and t h […]
Work into refining the viability of octopus farming continues apace. I doubt that there is any other animal on Earth the farming of which would so closely resemble the cultivation of extraterrestrial life. Reflections on a big(ger) picture: In what ways does accelerated aquaculture only continue to generate the problems which have led to the […]
Daedelus Kite 