AND What are you going to do in the war, Mummy?

– from here, advertising a shop in Istanbul

quite apart from the monetarisation of every relation, there appears the as if of our neo-colonised and neo-liberal social setup: as if a relation belonged to the world of commercial communication. The models set by the commercialisation of culture hereby extend beyond what may – usefully or not – be

The jolt was felt as far away as Tauranga, which is an hour south of Auckland, and all over the South Island. But it was shallower and more localised than the last quake in Christchurch. The last measured 7.1, its epicentre 50 km out to sea and 10 km

– from here