British journalist skewers a quarter century of fuzzy thinking: Quote: "Throw away that horoscope, leave your inner child unattended and put your stockbroker on hold. Francis Wheen would like to strip you of your illusions. Wheen's witty new book, Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons and the Erosion of Common Sense, takes on horoscopes, self-help books, New Age therapies, Reaganite "voodoo economics," the dot-com bubble and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - all ingredients in what he sees as a tide of unreasoned sludge overtaking the world. (His book was originally published in England as How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions.)" Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]