East Asia's Dollars: Discussions of the sustainability of the US current-account deficit--trending upward from $800bn--rarely plumb the long-term motives of its creditors. Taggart Murphy analyses the historical roots of Tokyo's post-1868 geofinancial support for the ruling superpower, London or Washington, and the implications of China's rise for Japanese strategy. 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]
