Interesting article from the BBC News magazine charting some of the changes in assumptions and values since the inception of the UK's General Household Survey in 1971.
Sunday, 10 March 2013
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Interesting incidents
Some readings
- Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich (1970)
- Four arguments for the elimination of television by Jerry Mander (1978)
- Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (1970)
- Gyn/Ecology: the metaethics of radical feminism by Mary Daly (1978)
- Human Rights and American Foreign Policy by Noam Chomsky (1978)
- Person/Planet: the creative disintegration of industrial society by Theodore Roszak (1978)
- Post Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (1971)
- Reyner Banham: Historian of the immediate future
- Small is Beautiful by E.F.Schumacher (1973)
- The Money Game by Adam Smith (1976 ed.)
- The Postmodern Condition: a report on knowledge (1979)
- Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich (1973)
Key films to watch
- The Taking of Pelham 123 (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
- The Ice Storm (Ang Lee 1997)
- The Anderson Tapes (Sidney Lumet, 1971)
- The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
- Don't Look Now (Nic Roeg, 1973)
- Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
- Sweeney! (1976)
- Jubilee (Derek Jarman (1977)
- Frost - Nixon Interview, 1977
- Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) (Slow Motion) (Jean Luc Godard, 1980)
Key zeitgeist indicators
- '70s movie rewind
- 1970s Project
- Desert Deathstar and the little Japanese radio
- Desolation Row: deserted housing pods in Taiwan
- French Letraset catalogue from 1977
- Hotel California: LA from the Byrds to the Eagles
- Just look at this list of childhood obsessions to see what I mean
- Life on Mars
- Michael Palin's diaries
- Royksopp - Remind Me - Video
- Semi-Detached by Griff Rhys Jones
- Shut It! The music of The Sweeney
- That 70s Show
- The BBC Test Card Club
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