No Logo

[FridgeMagnet]

Yeah, it's ace. In Japan you can now buy Muji houses.

I was amazed the first time I went in Ginza and they were selling just about everthing, including kitchen sinks.

It's all a fuck load cheaper in Japan compared to here too.

Unfortunately they have bugger all clothes in my size. I like the stationery though.

 

[kyser_soze]

Ummmm no?

I'm not a xenophobe just a luddite, it's new and fashionable therefore inevitably crap

Ah, one of those.

Pray you never have a serious medical condition then, eh? All that modern technology...



BTW - Muji has been in the UK more than a decade, as have sushi bars (and sushi isn't crap)

 

[psycherelic]

Ah, one of those.

Pray you never have a serious medical condition then, eh? All that modern technology...

Hopefully I'll be using that modern technology in a few months once i'm a fully qualified biomedical scientist.

I'm just naturally inclined to hate stuff that looks excessively fashionable. Muji just seems a bit nathan barley for my taste and it seems to just be building a brand identity out of having no branding as if it wasn't enough to stick logos on everything now not having a logo has been turned into a brand all of its own argh!

Maybe it's just fear of the unknown, after all I do live in Stoke-on-Trent the nineties haven't quite happened here yet

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Unfortunately they have bugger all clothes in my size. I like the stationery though.

Lucky for me they only have clothes in my size. Muji Japan was the first place I managed to get an off the peg suit. The actually even slightly adjust and tailor the suits the same day you buy them. Sadly the first one I bought had me accidentally asking for stitched in turn ups.

 

[Wookey]

I got sent a No Logo t-shirt during the promo run for the book. I do love it.

 

[treelover]

Tobytoo, maybe the book you were referring to was 'The Rebel Sell': haven't read it but it seems largely to be an attack on N.American groups like Adbusters.


BTw, the Klein film about the Argentinian Ceramics Factory occupation is an excellent film and recommended viewing, it had none of the triumphalism a lot of the post Seattle US anti/globalisation docs seem to have, indeed, indeed in my view, it was rather subdued, very moving and ultimately (though the workers were defeated) inspiring.


'Introduction
September 2003 marked a turning point in the development of Western civilization. It was the month that Adbusters magazine started accepting orders for the Black Spot Sneaker, its own signature brand of "subversive" running shoes. After that day, no rational person could possibly believe that there is any tension between "mainstream" and "alternative" culture. After that day, it became obvious to everyone that cultural rebellion, of the type epitomized by Adbusters magazine, is not a threat to the system-it is the system.'


llhttp://www.harpercanada.com/rs/excerpt.asp

In Canada I picked up a book written as a counter to No Logo. Just been searching for the title, but can't find it. Anyways, it lays out a pretty thick argument as to why the likes of Naomi Klein and Adbusters are full of sh*t. I found the angle to be quiet inspiring, but the writers didn't offer much more than to explain that "the culture jammers are sh*t".

 

[muser]

And from my understanding it's more "way hey, I want a piece of that!" rather than more malicious stuff.

zoltan69 - not calling you personally a misogynist but I do wonder sometimes if the male bias there is in society subconsiously influences how the public see the work of men and women, particuarly in popular academia. That men have somehow got it more right and can be trusted more, that a woman who is passionate and serious about something is seen as more "humourless and ambitious" than her male counterparts (and I don't think you can't level that critism at lots of male authors). That men write the main theories and women just write around the issues. Certainly in psychology which is more my area of expertese women have been marginalized througout the discipline, both as psychologists and as subjects.

Edit: tip if you don't want to come across as a misogynist though - best not to publically talk about thoughts of throwing women down stairs.

true

 

[muser]

I have a copy of captive state but haven't read it on account that is it isn't well written, although I agree with the points made in the book (if one could be said to agree on anything that he/she hasn't read). I think there is liberalism fatigue in society at the moment, and that a right wing trends will soon be the norm, with all that brings.
Maybe I'm being a little paranoid, but I can see the signs.

 

[Ryan]

I read about 70 pages, and then let dust cover it before someone stole it.

Probably for a tea coaster or door stop.