Newtopia | Issue #10 - May 2003: "The Creative Economy"

Newtopia Policy Statement

 

40 MILLION STRONG
by Charles Shaw

What are the political responsibilities of the Creative Class?

THE GAY CONTINGENT
by Kimberly Nichols

Palm Springs and the Gay Community

FREE—FROM WHAT?
by Bryan Brickner, PhD

The Creative Class faces an ideological chasm in the New World Order.

TOWARDS A JUST PROSPERITY
by Brian Clardy, PhD

A challenge to the Creative 100 on the broader questions of poverty and opportunity.

WITHERING HEIGHTS
by Rajgopal Nidamboor

Adressing the Age Divide in the Creative Class.

DREADED CITY
by Marcus Reichert

Feature Poetry and Painting by Marcus Reichert.

THE TYGERS OF WRATH: Who's Afraid of the Avant Garde
by Akin Olatidoye

The ancient call to arouse imagination, creativity, and conceptualisation to new heights is enrapturing and many have risen to heed it.

THE STAY-PUFT MARSHMELLOW MAN AND THE QUEST FOR IT
by Colin Shea

Expat tech worker regales the new ecomomy good life in the Czech Republic.

FAST FOOD SALVATION
by Michael Calderone

Consumption and the Creative Class.

SOTHIC: CREATIVE LIFE AND WORK
by Dianna and Bryan Brickner

Always on, productivity knows no limits when driven by creativity.

A SENSORY (NOT CENSORED) ENVIRONMENT FOR THE CREATIVE CLASS
by Danielle Wallace

Examining the Seedy as Sexy: how urban grit and crime attract creative types seeking realism.

3AM ETERNAL
by Erica Coslor

Nightlife and Entertainment for the Creative Class.

DIRK DIGGLER, SADDAM NATION, AND THE METAPHYSICS OF MOUSTACHE HATING
by Just'n Lodge

Aussie Just'n Lodge wonders why all totalitarians are so fond of the ole push broom.

THE MEMPHIS MANIFESTO
by Charles Shaw

The full document and photos from the Summit

 

 

INTIFADA JOURNALS: A Voice From Jerusalem
An Exclusive Series for Newtopia Magazine by Henry Carse, with stunning images by Marcus Reichert

From the shattered streets of Israel and the Occupied Territories comes a vivid account of one man's anguish and determination to make sense of a conflict seemingly without end. Living at the very heart of East Jerusalem, Henry Carse, writer, practical theologian, scholar, and father of four children living amidst the mayhem, ventures out to engage with Israeli and Palestinian friends alike to starkly reveal the desperation and hope that thrive in that barren place.

VII. - FROM A DISTANCE
VIII. - SOME PEOPLE MARCHING

 

 

CRITICAL ASPIRATIONS
by RD Kushner

An alternative to the life you've been dreaming, the ideas you've been drinking, and the rhetoric you've been eating.

13. Drink

DIARY OF A MADMOM
by Catherine O'Sullivan

Newtopia's resident mother hen chimes in on Motherhood and its role in the New World Order.

LETTERS FROM THE UK
by Cameron Carter

A monthly musing from our boys across the pond at CODE UNCUT MAGAZINE

 

CONSIDER THE PEPPER
by Laurie Kuntz
DEMOCTATORSHIP
by Nancy Abdel Messieh
LOST TOMORROW
by Krissy Brady
GIRAFFE
by Donald Dewey
HIGHRISE
by Glenn Brigaldino

 

GOOGLE DOODLE
by Lane Ashfeldt

Google isn't: a solution. Google is: the new tv for netheads who have switched off from terrestrial.

SOLDATA'S MIRAGE
by Utahna Faith

Fiction by Utahna Faith

EMPATHY CAPITALIZED
by Rajgopal Nidamboor

A Review of Rich DeVos' Compassionate Capitalism.

BUZZWORDS WEST
by Greg Farnum

Cultural news and scenes from across America.

 

CINEMASHRINK: BASIC
by Dr. Jane Alexander Stewart
EXCERPT FROM KARA RUN
A feature-length screenplay by Tom Bradley
SEPTEMBER 11th
A review of the film, by Irene Tejaratchi

 

URBS IN HORTO
by Charles Shaw and Carrie Mapes

A Photo Essay by Charles Shaw and Carrie Mapes