Monday, August 23, 2004
Globalisation, meet Jim Morrison (sort of)
This nugget is courtesy of Mark Kaplan's Charlotte Web..
Speaking of a unified world, one of my American students confided in me after a trip abroad "they don't seem to have a cafe culture in Italy, do they?" 'What?," I stammered. 'Well, I didn't see a single Starbucks all the time I was there."
As Jim Morrison might have said, 'I've been steeped in simulacra so damn long, it sure looks like the real to me."
Speaking of a unified world, one of my American students confided in me after a trip abroad "they don't seem to have a cafe culture in Italy, do they?" 'What?," I stammered. 'Well, I didn't see a single Starbucks all the time I was there."
As Jim Morrison might have said, 'I've been steeped in simulacra so damn long, it sure looks like the real to me."
