November 2011
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Ignorance is bliss?
Whilst Clare is busy revamping the website (more details to follow shortly), we try to figure out what Counterculture means for Clare/LSE/you/us. Submissions deadline is looming ahead (11/11/11) and I’m still scratching my head in confusion.
On second thought, Friday 11th is still a long way away.
I’ll use Bukowski’s bitterness as food for thought....
March 2010
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Fear and Loathing in Westminster? →
Our very own Special Projects editor Annalise brings you a new politically inclined read on the run-up to the UK’s General Election. Fear and Loathing in Westminster promises an ‘independent and impartial’ perspective on the inevitable political storm. Have a look and see what fellow LSE’ers have to say about our upcoming election!
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"Economy Bites" - Recession Friendly Cooking for... →
In a cramped kitchen in Brooklyn, two twenty-something entrepreneurs are making the best of the recession. On October 2nd, 2009, Allie Schwartz and Daniel Schloss launched the web-based cooking show, “Economy Bites,” at www.economybites.tv. Aimed at recent college graduates with little cooking know-how and even less disposable income, “Economy Bites” teaches a...
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Who Are You? Well, Who's Your Favorite Author? →
In this little gem, Lauren Leto tries to tell you what stereotype you are based off your favorite author. She is sometimes charmingly accurate. Others a bit more off-base.
Charles Dickens
Ninth graders who think they’re going to be authors someday but end up in marketing.
This is painfully accuate. I was a 14 year old clutching a copy of “A Tale of Two Cities”… my first...
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The Americanization of Mental Illness →
Social Anthropology has been telling me that nothing exists outside of culture. There is so such thing as a vacuous realm free from the bounds of our own social conditioning - even empirical science. Most definitely frustrating, but almost certainly helpful when arguing over a few pints. All comes down to relativism. Check out how mental illness has been ‘bastardized’ and exported by...
“Just like The Terminator, you knew ‘I’d be back.’”
– Clive 08/03/2010
February 2010
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It ain't over 'till... Well now.
Sorry for not having had time to update more often but things got proper manic thisaway. We’ve a treat in store for all readers of Clare. Be sure to scoop your copy of the Zine on Monday from our stall on Houghton Street and buy your tix for the Launch Party there too!
For more party info head for hereaway:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=293690317408
Bye for now
Noughty but Nice
Clare’s Build-a-Zine Day is off to a blistering start but we need your help! Drop-by E168 (call Clare on 07986860013 if you can’t find the room) to lend a hand, we have bagels, biscuits and tea aplenty all of which you will be plied with on arrival.
Ideas are rolling but our pages need filling so pop down to dream-weave your way to zinetopic super-stardom.
Check hither for more...
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It's finally here...!
Today’s the day…! The sun is shining…! the tank is clean…!
Oh wait…
No, haven’t found Nemo (nor is it sunny) but the BUILD-A-ZINE is underway!
Going live from our Roald Dalh-esque workshop in the East Building, Clare +’s Noughties themed zine will be complete in less than 10 hours!
Come on down to E168 and participate to what will be one of the...
Build-a-Zine !
January 2010
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December 2009
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Welcome to CLIVE!
Welcome to CLIVE! The little brother of the LSE SU’s Student Journal CLARE MARKET REVIEW on the web. Here you’ll find a smorgasbord of things to see, touch, smell, ponder, debate, laugh and cry about. The most important element of our little niche here is YOU! YOU! YOU! We want your SUBMISSIONS and comments on absolutely anything you, as an LSE student or friend, think will tickle...
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"British people among world's ugliest" →
Britons are among the ugliest people in the world, according to a website that only allows ‘beautiful’ people to join.
This was submitted by an American. Not shocking. However, it’s pretty entertaining. The UK is losing to Sweden, Brazil and Norway because apparently this country ‘places less emphasis on physical appearances than overseas.’ Yikes, that’s a big...
November 2009
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Female unconventional role models in film are... →
Scott Mendelson makes some pointed comments towards the moralisers who seem to follow unconventional films with unparalled zeal. His examples for slightly left-field characters are brilliant, the Sex in the City girls materialism contrasting with Bella Swan’s fatally flawed teenage girl. These characters should be held up as tributes to real life, perhaps somewhat exaggerated but certainly...
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The Obama Administration: Unprecedented? →
President Barack Obama was the first African-American to hold the office of Presidency. This was unprecedented. This should not be shocking. However, it’s becoming apparent that Obama has run a rampant monopoly on the term “unprecedented” in terms of himself, as a president, and what his administrative seeks to and has actually achieved. It’s an interesting, if not a cringe...
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It's Getting Hot In Here... →
Just how much are our perceptions of others crafted solely on not just physical appearance, but simple decisions regarding which trousers to wear or what piece of jewelry to put on?
This project has been sweeping the web for months. Some weird teacher when you were young probably told you to imagine your audience naked when giving a speech, and hey — I’ve tried it. Didn’t work...
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Sliimy - Womanizer
Cover culture is pervasive amongst music in our generation. It seems logical that there is a ‘Hubbert Peak Theory’ of music. This theory relates to oil but translates into music thus: That there is a finite amount of truly unique music that we can make. Covers would seem the easiest way to get around this theory and continue producing music that is innovative,...
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WatchCosmopolitan Tribalism
Absolutely no idea what to make of it. Not entirely sure the point that they are trying to make. This appears to be nothing more than aural/visual hipster orgasm, but the video is proposing something a bit further reaching than that. Its presumptions on transnational cultural exportation, deemed the birth of “Cosmopolitan Tribalism,” is not an unexamined...
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The Open Road
A biocolour film shot by pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene showcasing London’s postcard attractions during 1926. Click through for a high quality version, remastered and digitally enhanced by the British Film Industry.
[Biocolour] produced the illusion of true colour by exposing each alternate frame of ordinary black-and-white film stock through a two different coloured filters. Each...
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The London Cloud...? →
A giant “digital cloud” that would “float” above London’s skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers.
Well this is pretty incredible. London really tries to be at the forefront of, well, quirky? architecture. Not many cities get to boast a massive gherkin and ferris wheel on their skyline now do they? However, this whole...
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Cloud of Atlases: The Morning News →
We’ve removed the legends and all other telltale labels from the maps below, and challenge you to guess what each map depicts using only clues contained within the maps: the color-coding, names, landmarks, and whatever else you can detect. Here’s one clue to get you started: None of the maps represent gross national anything.
This is just cool. And much harder than it looks I might add. Will let...
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WatchIn case you missed the mayhem on Houghton Street last Thursday, here is EXCLUSIVE! footage of CLIVE!’s debut to the world.
Beaty Heart playing on the roof of the East Building. Check it?!
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Roland Emmerich Plays The PC Game? →
Director Roland Emmerich is known for destroying things in really epic ways. Who will ever forget the classic destruction of the White House by crazy aliens in Independence Day? Or that shockingly unnecessary scene with the wolves in The Day After Tomorrow? Well now, more than ever, Roland Emmerich gets to blow up as much shit as he wants in the new apocalypse film 2012, due in theatres November...
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Not Getting Laid Enough? →
We all know the LSE is notorious for the wild and crazy sexual escapades of its students (what’s the stats? .2/100 people have sexual intercourse every six months?). In this piece, the sexual lives of six “ordinary” people you probably never wanted to imagine copulating are thrust in your face in vivid detail. You’ll be surprised. Who knew middle aged people were still...
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Depression: What doesn't kill you makes you... →
The Upside of Feeling Down: Depression might be evolution’s way of fixing what ails us
Feeling sad? Feeling down? That’s okay, you’ll be better for it! In this day and age, permanent happiness has been thrust to the forefront of “life maximization ideals.” In this Newsweek piece, Sharon Begley brings attention to a psychiatric movement tying depression in with...
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WatchCLIVE!CLIVE!CLIVE!CLIVE!CLIVE!CLIVE!CLIVE!CLIVE!CLIVE!CLIVE!CLIVE!
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“The basis of the structural anthropology of Lévi-Strauss is the idea that the...”
– LSE Professor of Anthropology - Maurice Bloch
Obituary of famed anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss
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WatchAn old throwback. Long live Phil. And gorillas. And Cadbury.
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What Does Love Mean to One Man? →
The joint suicide of André Gorz, the French philosopher and founder of the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, and his British-born wife Dorine, who was suffering from a fatal disease, has turned the love letter that he wrote to her into a surprise bestseller.
This is quite possibly one of the most emotionally poignant pieces on what it means to love another person that I have ever come across....
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Ayn Rand 1; You - ? →
Ayn Rand never got into an argument she couldn’t win. Except, perhaps, with herself.
This is another great feature piece by NY Mag. It may be easy to poke holes in Rand’s objectivism but it’s hard to diminish its provocativeness. Whether you love her, hate her, or just another eager student who checked out Atlas Shrugged from the library only to give up 1/3 of the way through,...
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God Bless America? →
Maira Kalman, in an opinion blog for The New York Times, explores in a very entertaining way the very nature of the American legislative system. What appears arduous and inefficient to a layman has actually been written purposefully into the American constitution. Well, I’ll let the article speak for itself. Make sure to read all of the cartoons.
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Surgery? →
This is just awesome. You kill the bunny. Then you have one minute to follow the instructions to save his life. Just try it. You’ll like it.
About as much medicine any LSE student will do in his/her lifetime…
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Are You a Racist Pig? →
Are you a racist? How about a sexist? Maybe just an all encompassing bigot? No? Well some know-it-alls at Harvard have created a series of social experiments and tests that question people’s innate biases - you know, the ones you will never admit out loud. The tests stipulate, and apologize in advance, for the “shocking” result everyone ends up with. See for yourself, they...
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October 2009
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The Hunted: New York Magazine →
“From Baghdad—frightening reports of gay pogroms, where homosexual men are targeted, tortured, slayed. From New York—a scurry to find those same men before they are killed, and shepherd them to safety.”
Too often we read of grave human rights violations in distant lands. Two New Yorkers tried to help in the only way they could - getting these men out. While obviously removing the...