Comments on: Topic stack # 4

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:08:56 +0000

Love the one about the woman on the train. Not only because it involves a flirtatious encounter, of which I am always a fan, but because it is a great everyday illustration of a systemic and recursive relationship, and how the introduction of new information (in this case your “admiration”) can change the entire structure of the system, at least for a while.

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:34:00 +0000

artisanal bank = credit union

By: peter spear

peter spear — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:07:47 +0000

I checked dictionary.com for “aeration” here are my faves:

–Exposure to the free action of the air; airing;
–(Physiol.) A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.
–The act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent.

What is going in and what is going and what is the relationship between the two, is my question. it seems like there used to be a reverse engineering to brand and culture. the application of culture to ‘orated’ branding efforts to sweeten the pill. culture is beginning, in matrix slo-mo, to flip over backwards to the drivers position. perhaps we’re caught now (thanks to many issues) caught in that slo-mo . . . . what will be the relationship that brand offers culture and vice versa?

By: Tom Asacker

Tom Asacker — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:39:08 +0000

“She picks up my (very quiet) admiration. (Honest.) And she feels differently about herself. And her husband picks up her new self admiration. And this converts to his renewed admiration for her. And she plays this back as a renewed admiration for him.”

Or, perhaps you were dragging a length of toilet paper on the bottom of your shoe.