Conservation protects only the most widely shared of memories. Unfortunately, one’s list of personal landmarks generally would not merit a second look by anyone else. You invest your own private meanings into the places where you lived, studied, played and worked. They become repositories of memories in a way that photographs or diaries never do. Memories recorded self-consciously always miss the mundane. It is the things one takes for granted that disappear most irretrievably- like the feel of small mosaic tiles beneath one’s small bare feet. (查看原文)
This book offered a thorough discussion on Singapore's political, social, economic and cultural climate. It shed light on the delicate balance between the tight political control that guaranteed Singapore's social stability and economic success and the risi...
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0 有用 FoundObject 2021-01-18 03:51:21
只看了和air-conditioning相关的部分。Air-conditioned nation和air-conditioned underwear是作者所用的两个政治隐喻。
0 有用 headradio 2020-08-23 13:19:13
我看的Ethos出版的2020年重印版，添加了不少2000年后的文章， 包括作者是怎么被南洋理工和新加坡政府封杀出走的。大多数文章都是所谓的high politics，讲人民行动党的执政问题，但多了就有点絮叨，如果能多一些社会文化方面的文章就更好了，National Identity的那部分就不错。整本书仍不失是很好的对新加坡政治的全景观察了解
0 有用 Maltesers 2014-12-11 15:44:17
witty and quite insightful, though I'm not really interested in the topic itself