Coal is back, poetic NFTs, select your fantasy politburo and Stallone's stunt double
Great links, reading and images from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Coal is Back
Coal was the top contributor to new generation in 2021 as the first round of the energy crisis hit.
Source: FT
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China not moving
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Paying for Poetry
On a November evening at Christie’s New York last year, a poem was presented for auction. Rather than a leather-bound book or a weighty manuscript, the poem, Arcadia, was sold in the form of a nine-minute, 48-second-long abstract animation, soundtracked with ASMR-esque electronic music by musician RAC. It became “the first collaborative interdisciplinary fine art NFT to come to auction”, as the press release put it. With a hammer price of $525,000, it also made its creator, the 30-year-old Russian-born British poet Arch Hades, “the highest paid living poet of all time”. The video has since gone on show at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and this autumn the poem is being published as a book too.
Its elegant, sexy and kinda cool, but listen too closely to the actual poem and you begin to wonder whether this is not rather self-indulgent and sophomoric.
“I want to break free of this labyrinth/switch off all these screens/Escape this simulacrum/which makes man into machine.”
Gotta love that the FT runs a long read recommending contemporary poetry!
Catholics outnumber Protestants in N Ireland
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Finance and Society …. one interesting conference
For a remarkable overview of the latest work on the intersection of finance and critical social sciences, check out this conference program.
Frederick Douglass as reader of economics
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Pick your fantasy Politburo
Source: Macropolo
Stallone’s stunt double
Wolfgang Güllich the pioneering sport climber who was Stallone’s stunt double hangs off the barrel of a wrecked Egyptian tank in the Sinai. © Gerhard Heidorn/laif
Amongst his achievements was to open up the a vertiginous free climbing route called Action Directe!
A fascinating profile (in German) in Die Zeit.
They are coming for your golf clubs
In the 1940s, Look Magazine made a comic strip of Hayek's classic book 'The Road to Serfdom'. This reproduced a pamphlet version originally prepared by GM in Detroit as a 5 minute film. It features this terrifying scene. The final conclusion of the road to serfdom! Aerobics rather than golf. Source: Youtube