What Are The Politics Of Boredom?

I Was Taught That To Create Anything You Had To Believe In Failure, Simply Because You Had To Be Prepared To Go Through An Idea Without Any Fear. Failure, You Learned, As I Did In Art School, To Be A Wonderful Thing. It Allowed You To Get Up In The Morning And Take The Pillow Off Your Head.

Our Culture Has Become Something That Is Completely And Utterly In Love With Its Parent. It's Become A Notion Of Boredom That Is Bought And Sold, Where Nothing Will Happen Except That People Will Become More And More Terrified Of Tomorrow, Because The New Continues To Look Old, And The Old Will Always Look Cute.

Everyone Should Be Commended For Allowing People To Make Disasters, To Make Failures - You've Just Got To Be Sure That It's A Magnificent Failure And That, By Creating A Magnificent Failure, You Plant The Seed.

The Thing About Paris, It's A Great City For Wandering Around And Buying Shoes And Nursing A Cafe Au Lait For Hours On End And Pretending You're Baudelaire. But It's Not A City Where You Can Work.

Through All Aspects Of Society Be It Art, Design, The Financial Markets, Government, Technology Or Communications We Are Witnessing Unprecedented Global Transformation - The Result Of Which Is Impossible To Predict.