Author Archive for foamsociety
Our secret is out as the magazine Cabinet dedicates its latest issue to the theme ‘testing’. Cabinet has a tendency to exploit (or, rather, explode) interesting topics without covering them in any substantial way. This issue is no exception.
An excellent article on the discourses of intervention in Afghanistan by Rory Stewart, from the July 9th issue of the London Review of Books.
The collapse of Bernard (Bernie to his friends) Madoff’s Ponzi scheme is exposing some interesting networks in the world of investment and philanthropy. Not only did the scam spread through word of mouth and country club contacts, but apparently a large part of the appeal of the scheme was in its apparent exclusivity. “Dealing with [...]
Brief and amazing obituary of market research pioneer Harry Henry in this week’s Financial Times. Here are some of Mr Henry’s multiple achievements:
“In 1949, he was the first to use a punch-card system to work out how the country was covered by the press…”
“Mr Henry invented methods of calculating the time people spent looking at [...]
With the rise of ethical regulations for research involving ‘human subjects’, the tradition of social scientific inquiry that relied on deception and the ‘psychologically exploitive’ manipulation of participants came to an end. Or, rather, it was transplated into reality television. Stanley Milgram would have a hard time today getting his experimental protocols past his university’s [...]
One traditional way of occupying the time between Election Day and the Inauguration of a new American President is to discuss the books the President-Elect might be reading in preparation for the New Job. Reports of books Obama is said to be reading abound. Doris Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham [...]
We thought we were witnessing the nationalization of financial institutions, when in fact what is actually taking place is the financialization of the state. Last week George Osborne, Tory politician and still the likeliest candidate for Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2010, called for the state to act as a bank, directly offering loans and [...]
John K. Galbraith famously argued that in the United States the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich. In today’s Washington Post, über-conservative George Will finds the latest series of “bail-outs” insufferable (“‘Socialism’? It’s Already Here”) and calls conservatives to confess their complicity and repent:
“In America, socialism is un-American. Instead, Americans merely [...]
(OK, let’s not talk about that other thing today…) Count the West Nile virus among the few beneficiaries of the downturn in the housing market. According to a recent article in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases (“Delinquent Mortgages, Neglected Swimming Pools, and West Nile Virus, California”, by William K. Reisen, Richard M. Takahashi, Brian D. [...]
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