Shattering Surfaces
John Cox and Bahamian Perspectives on Global Identity

What does it mean to be Bahamian in an increasingly global cultural dialogue? How does an emerging nation, like the Bahamas, participate in and shape the global cultural landscape when it still has many issues of national identity unexplored? Will the Bahamas be swallowed up in the monolithic stream of North American consumer culture or will it retreat into its historical identity as an escapist paradise?
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Your Dangerous Idea
The World Question Center is a really interesting place to visit on the web. It is part of a larger site devoted to ideas and critical thinking called the Edge (www.edge.org). It was launched in 1988 out of the success of another group called The Reality Club, a loose collective of intellectual thinkers who gathered on a regular basis to think out loud about radical ideas that might change the world.
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New Year’s Dreams and Disappointment Ritual
Barry Taylor
You will need Sheets of paper
Envelopes
Pencils and Pens
Metal container
Matches/lighter
1 shoe box or similar container
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Window on the Future
Barry Taylor
I am not very good at predicting the future. I don’t even think too much about it most of the time, I am too busy trying to keep my life on track... But when we come to the end of another year, like most people, I think for a minute about the past and the future.
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Footprints
Barry Taylor
What impact do you have on the planet, just by living? Have you ever considered how your day to day life affects the environment or damages the eco-system?
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The next enlightenment
Barry Taylor
Almost every book dealing with contemporary culture seems to start with something along the lines of, "we are going through a time of unprecedented change... paradigm shift... emerging culture" etc. It has become a bit of a cliché to begin conversations about 21st century life that way - it can get a little tiring.
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A mark, a brand, a scar
Barry Taylor
I've always had a fascination with tattoos and body adornments. In my lifetime tattoo culture has broadened immensely shifting from something that was almost exclusively the domain of sailors, bikers and other shady criminal types to a rite of passage for people from all walks of life from soccer mums to lawyers.
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