November 2010
6 posts
s.m-a: Rebranding the Philippines. →
sarahmeier:
A poster created by Philippine design and apparel house Team Manila upon hearing from tourism experts that “nobody even knows where the Philippines is on the map”.
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Shouts to Team Manila, co-conspirators in an initiative to rebrand our country and give the Philippine Department of…
Darkest.
It is 1975.
Imagine: Troops marching into the city, victorious. Cries of joy and elation resound in the streets. Civil war has ended. A time of peace, at last.
Imagine: Troops marching into the city with faces that reflect not the joy of victory or the relief of peace, but the harshness of an ongoing war.
Imagine…
You are one of those people shouting for joy in the streets, unaware of...
Dawn.
Year 1156 AD.
It is night. It is day. It is the time in between times when all is silent, and all is dark, and all is still…
Save for a solitary figure roaming the stone corridors. He walks the antechambers, through the passageways secret and unsecret, through the terraces and countless stairwells and staircases… through the causeway where stone slabs form a great and wide bridge...
Harry Potter and the half-crazed bureaucracy. →
mlq3:
A truly delightful, even marvelous, paper by Benjamin Barton.
Abstract
This Essay examines what the Harry Potter series (and particularly the most recent book, The Half-Blood Prince) tells us about government and bureaucracy. There are two short answers. The first is that Rowling presents a government (The Ministry of Magic) that is 100% bureaucracy. There is no discernable executive or...
