Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter Bradwell is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in digital identity, technology and the ways that information and knowledge is shared...
at 12:00am
on Friday, 26th May 2006
Two examples stand out. First, his stunt was called 'Drowned Alive'. Has anyone, ever, anywhere, drowned without being alive first? Or is that syntactically insane title supposed to mean something else? Second, he suggests that ''what's different about me'is (that) my stuff is more about'the art of doing absolutely nothing, which in this day and age is so unusual.' I've got a transitional labour force and an emerging post-industrial legacy that says different.
I don't want to rain on the parade of anyone who might want to bury themselves in a plastic coffin for a week, or put themselves in the middle of a big ice cube. Life's for living, after all. And I'm sure, beneath the vacant stare, he's a lovely man. His card tricks were great. But I can't help feeling that pelting his box above the Thames with eggs was admirably frank, and even rather restrained.
Two examples stand out. First, his stunt was called 'Drowned Alive'. Has anyone, ever, anywhere, drowned without being alive first? Or is that syntactically insane title supposed to mean something else? Second, he suggests that ''what's different about me'is (that) my stuff is more about'the art of doing absolutely nothing, which in this day and age is so unusual.' I've got a transitional labour force and an emerging post-industrial legacy that says different.
I don't want to rain on the parade of anyone who might want to bury themselves in a plastic coffin for a week, or put themselves in the middle of a big ice cube. Life's for living, after all. And I'm sure, beneath the vacant stare, he's a lovely man. His card tricks were great. But I can't help feeling that pelting his box above the Thames with eggs was admirably frank, and even rather restrained.
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