A property crisis: interview with Thomas Piketty
Zan Boag: You write in Capital that inherited wealth is the key to inequality, that it is almost as decisive a factor as it…
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The end of progress
Zan Boag: Contemporary society places great weight on the importance of progress and growth. What does it mean for a society to progress? David…
Rush hour
What prompted you to do the “stainless” series, as well as your earlier work “squares” and “urban flow"? I wanted to show the human…
Alienated from the pleasures of work
Zan Boag: As a group you have been meeting to discuss ‘work’ over the past two years, under the title ‘Labor, philosophy, and change’.…
The lost art of happiness
Sitting around the kitchen stove with his family, a man from Ladakh, better known as “Little Tibet” describes the tourists that he’d seen in…
Superhero of the mind
To see a person taking in the wonders of the sky is a rare sight when all but a few are staring at their…
13 questions: Mr John Clarke
1. The question you'd most like to ask others? What are you doing? 2. How free are you? I’ll be free in about 20…
13 questions with Michael Leunig
1. What is the biggest threat to our minds? Our minds. 2. What is freedom? Non-compliance and creativity. 3. What illusion do you suffer…
Bringing thinkers into focus: Steve Pyke
It’s a dismal affair when the faces of people we don’t wish to remember - such as modern-day celebrities - easily spring to mind,…
