Issue 5 Fear No Boundaries – Sublime

Fluid And Flexible

laurasan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Traditional boundaries are disappearing. As work and leisure time become more fluid, generational boundaries dissolve and what’s real and virtual merge, we’re demanding more flexible lives. We change jobs more frequently and we want more flexibility from our working hours. We want stores and services that are open and available when it suits us....

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Antivirus Activist

laurasan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:00:00 +0000

It is a long, slow dance in which he and HIV are engaged; on the good days, Pontiano sees the incremental steps forward. On the bad ones, the virus seems always out of reach, with one more manoeuvre in its arsenal, one more way to keep from giving up its secrets. But Pontiano has a...

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Fear No Boundary?

laurasan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:00:00 +0000

The desire to cross oceans and push back the boundaries of the known world gripped countless explorers in preceding centuries, yet was still fresh in the nineteen hundreds. Apart from lofty mountains, notably Everest, the geographical world had been pretty thoroughly explored, and the potential for adventurism to turn into acquisitivism and imperialism was becoming...

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Belonging and Boundaries

Wayne Hemingway — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Wherever we go there are boundaries, but we have to keep thinking, we have to keep changing, keep asking if these boundaries are right for us. Out-of-town shopping centres and retail parks land like aliens. We go through their automatic doors into an air-conditioned environment of chain stores, all semblance of independent spirit purged...

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Waste Not, Want Not

laurasan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

In slightly broken English, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban charmingly but steadfastly refutes easy throwaway media-friendly notions and labels. ‘What is a green person anyway?’ he asks. ‘Someone with a low carbon footprint,’ I gamely respond. ‘What do you mean,’ he counters. ‘Someone who doesn’t produce much carbon or pollution ... It sounds like someone living in a jungle!’ he says gently but completely seriously.

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