Archive for the ‘Real Links’ Category
These are the sites, articles, and interesting online content we’re finding that have to do with Authenticity. Read on.
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October 30th, 2008
“Is It Real or a Replica? The Factory Knows It All” | The New York Times
An amazing program in place to ensure the authenticity of classic cars.
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October 30th, 2008
“Move Over, My Pretty, Ugly Is Here” | The New York Times
The principle of “Un-” in action, as in un-attractive. The perception of real takes myriad forms, including the ugly.
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October 28th, 2008
“‘Locally grown’ food sounds great, but what does it mean?” | USA Today
The authenticity wars heat up in the definition of “locally grown”. But however you define it, as one consumer says, “It’s a real good thing”.
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October 27th, 2008
“High-Tech Fish Farms Angle to Make Hard-to-Rear Cod the Next Salmon” | The Wall Street Journal
You Norwegians! Industrial aquaculture replaces fishing with farming. Unreal.
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October 26th, 2008
“Can I Get an Arrgh?” | The New York Times
With an eye on realistic fashion (and one eye at that, Matey), pirate re-enactors strive for authenticity in their costuming, as pirate tourism becomes a booming business.
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October 26th, 2008
“London Develops a Taste for Eco-Friendly Fare” | The New York Times
Read about “Britain’s first certified organic pub” and other locavore / natural food places in London.
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October 24th, 2008
“Partying Helps Power a Dutch Nightclub That Harnesses the Energy of Youth” | The New York Times
You Dutch! Kudos for demonstrating that any business can go green as a means to appeal to natural authenticity.
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October 24th, 2008
“Synecdoche, New York (2008)” | The New York Times
Movie reviewer Manohla Dargis finds Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut to be “about authenticity, including the search for an authentic self in an inauthentic world.” And Kaufman seems to have created a movie that itself seems authentic, particularly because it is “tethered to the here and now”.
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October 22nd, 2008
“Science Comes to Selling” | The Wall Street Journal
A must-read book review of a must-read book, Buyology, which addresses the latest tool of advertising: “neuromarketing.” As reviewer Martin Lindstrom points out, “It [neuromarketing] disrupts identity itself . . . By coupling advertising’s tendency to humanize commodities and commodify humans, it joins other forces working to erode the authentically human.”
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October 22nd, 2008
“Joe the Plumber and GOP ‘Authenticity’” | The Wall Street Journal
This Op-Ed piece brilliantly captures the most recent twist that the issue of authenticity has taken in the U.S. presidential race.