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Activism

Carnival Manifesto: Doing away with the trivial and the mundane, at least for a while.

by Tommy Manuel

I came across this a few days ago while look­ing for man­i­festos online. What appealed to me, besides the obvi­ous intent that any man­i­festo seeks to ini­ti­ate a fis­sure in the sta­tus quo, was the mix­ture of seri­ous­ness that typ­i­cally char­ac­ter­ize these pub­lic state­ments and the light-hearted epi­curean qual­i­ties of the carnival.

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The Awesomeness Manifesto

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Umair Haque, Harvard Busi­ness Publishing, 2:47 PM Wednes­day Sep­tem­ber 16, 2009
Inno­va­tion: it’s the ulti­mate source of advan­tage, the undis­puted heavy­weight cham­pion of the eco­nomic ring. Inno­va­tion is what every orga­ni­za­tion should be ruth­lessly pur­su­ing, right? Wrong.
I’d like to advance a hypoth­e­sis: awe­some­ness is the new inno­va­tion.
Let’s face it. “Inno­va­tion” feels like a relic of the indus­trial era. […]

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The Generation M Manifesto, by Umair Haque

by Tommy Manuel

I real­ize I may be veer­ing off the topic with this post, but sev­eral things  —  the Iran­ian elec­tion, now riots in China, the col­lapse of our house-of-cards econ­omy, a loom­ing infra­struc­ture cri­sis, and Kim Jong Ill’s hissy fits - have been con­verg­ing into an opti­mal seed bed for the polemic. Last night at the Man­hat­tan Stu­dio Ses­sion, the […]

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“A Manifesto in 140 Characters or Less” or “Tweeting Democracy in Iran”

by Tommy Manuel

When I first got the idea for this post, I was mostly think­ing about archi­tec­tural man­i­festos in 140 char­ac­ters or less. The recent events in Iran, how­ever, made me real­ize that a great num­ber of archi­tec­tural man­i­festos are intensely polit­i­cal. As a tool, the man­i­festo pub­licly out­lines a set of prin­ci­ples and objec­tives by which […]

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