Tony Curzon Price
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Tony Curzon Price has a PhD in economics, started a tech company in California and writes for openDemocracy and Intelligence Squared

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'A Woman Inside' - How Prison Changes Femininity

0 Comments | Posted 17 April 2012 | (23:41)

A fringe play by a prison therapist about the impact of incarceration on femininity presents an intense and brutal world, yet one in which humanity still gets a redeeming look in.

I imagine that prison would be endlessly dull. And that's a tough quality to represent dramatically - boredom. A...

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"Murdochgate" - Which Story Does it Vindicate?

0 Comments | Posted 13 July 2011 | (20:05)

The race is already on to tell the big story about the News of the World / News International scandal. The details are still fast moving, of course. It has the excitement of a quick finish in speed chess.

But for a whole class of the commentariat, this...

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Art Review: Giving Yourself The Finger

0 Comments | Posted 7 July 2011 | (22:53)



Calvert22, the contemporary Russian art gallery in hippest Shoreditch, has just opened its summer exhibition, "Field of Action: The Moscow Conceptual School in Context". At least in their early incarnation, these artists prefigured Glasnost in their intelligent, open, creative critiques of the Soviet...

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Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on why Julian Assange is Like an Eyelid-fluttering Ingénue

0 Comments | Posted 5 July 2011 | (19:28)

Here is Slovenian cultural critic, Slavoj Žižek's, favourite joke from Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka:

"Waiter, can I have a coffee? Without cream."
Waiter: "Sorry. We don't have cream. We have milk. Can I bring...

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