Recent content by tatarsky

Er.., yes it is, or rather neoclassicism is, but hang on... pressure to reduce demand (via rising price), isn't that precisely what is being said is necessary? The problem that neoclassicism has, is that it's shit at taking into account time. This didn't used to be a problem, when effectively...

Economics has a very blunt, positive definition of scarcity. It is thought of as the total endowment of a particular resource at any given time. As such it does not ascribe any normative value to our resources, meaning that it does not think about whether the thing we're talking about is...

The implications of coming off the gold standard, and the massive imbalances in the current economic climate that stem from the ungrounded monetary policy of the Fed (and more broadly global financial deregulation) are of enormous importance, and are only going to become more significant as the...

Bluffers guide to dubstep! Only £1! Not mentioning barefiles seems like a bit of an oversight.

Hadouken - Ostensibly Grime Forgive me, I really must try hard to come up with facts to establish whether an act is good or not. Despite years of trying on message boards and conversation, somehow this has proved elusive. Fair play to venom for having the courtesy to grace dissensus with a...

Ah, so this explains the sudden influx of indie-ness at dmz. :mad:

Clearly cross-pollination between genres is vital for music’s evolution, so it’s not just ludicrous, but outright dangerous, to get too parochial. It’s clear that Hadouken!’s use of grime is not ironic. Blaming them for any success they have off the back of a cynical mocking (racist?)...

Apparently he went to Reeds School in Cobham, which commands £15k a year or something. Not that that makes him automatically shit. It's the fact that he's a strum-by-numbers singer-songwriter that makes him shit. His privileged background just gives a rather convenient stick to beat him...

Awful. Heard him being interviewed on Radio 4 (!) the other day. He's another one of these public school boys engaged in some recreational slumming whilst on a gap year. In fact, I had heard that Goldman Sachs have offered him a career in printing money once he's done with the mockney...

Oh no, not again http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ebad1e4a-b719-11db-8bc2-0000779e2340.html Who's turn will it be next year? Oh god, it's going to David Cameron, isn't it?

That's an investment decision, not a creative one.

Apologies, I was perhaps being a bit literal. Still, i reckon a lot of these ideas get massively overplayed. It's like a second .com boom. Anyway, what precisely do you mean by "business driving creative"? By creative, do you mean the translation of a marketing strategy in to an idea, be it...

OK, MUCH confusion. You're in danger of conflating about twenty different trends, and grossly exaggerating the dynamics of a few. Firstly, businesses have always had to react to consumer demand. Nothing new here. The distinction comes in the speed at which they'll have to do this, in order...

Yes quite, I've been stewing on this idea for a while now, and been wondering about the angle from which to attack it for a thread. It seems swears's blurts have given me the opportunity. Anyway, punk-as-capitalism seems like a counterintuitive notion, and you're right that many a punk would...

This is it though, isn't it? Rock DID make a difference, but all of victories have been totally absorbed into modern culture, and moreover the antics of BoBono are weakened by their belonging to the status quo, no matter how much they attempt to use the name of rock to project some...