I have a favourite photograph of Tiananmen Square. It is a horizontal shot. A man rides a bicycle in the foreground – behind him there are serried rows of upright figures – thousands and thousands of figures. The photograph was taken in May 1989. The figures are students celebrating their occupancy of the famous square. […]
Media Madness
September 19, 2012 By
Blaise Pascall, the 17th century French philosopher and mathematician, thought the world’s problems could be solved if we could each learn to sit quietly in a room. But we have never been able or content to do that. We want distraction, and what we call ‘the media’ has provided it. Maybe it always did. Only […]
