Berfrois

September 2010

Jazz-Poetry and Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City

Jazz-Poetry and Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City

by Sean Bonney The Pythagorean harmony of the spheres proposed a perfect cosmology, a hierarchy built on scalar realities that justified social conditions on earth, where everybody was in their place, and nobody was able to question the beauty and perfection of these relationships. But for the system to...

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Yakuza 3 reviewed by the Yakuza

Yakuza 3 reviewed by the Yakuza

by Jake Adelstein with Lisa Katayama Several months ago, I introduced you to Jake Adelstein, the fearless-to-a-fault Jewish-American reporter who spent 12 years as a crime beat reporter in Japan and wrote about it in his book Tokyo Vice. In Tokyo Vice, we meet Adelstein’s arch-nemesis, a former yakuza...

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