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...Ulrich Beck, who is known for his highly influential 1986 work, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, was hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Science, Technology and Society program. He examined the possible upsides of global risks on the scale of climate change, the current financial crisis, and terrorism...
Doomed! We’re all doomed! Floods, hurricanes, swarms of locusts, and other biblical-sized plagues are approaching. Yes, global warming has arrived and it means business. Enter Beck with his new video, “Gamma Ray,” named after the most deadly form of electromagnetic radiation. The master ironist is here to warn us of a world full of melting icecaps and approaching apocalypse. (There may also be a love story somewhere in the lyrics.) Though the world may be ending, Beck’s constant inventiveness and bizarreness certainly are not. To go along...
...VASELINE!!! YOU GET VASELINE AND YOU GET VASELINE AND YOU GET VASELINE...AAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGHHHH! I use it morning, noon, and night, you guys. YOUR WILDEST DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE!!!” Fifty cents says Tyra thinks Barack Obama is a new kind of pilates. —Richard S. Beck...
Beck’s video for “Modern Guilt” is a deliberately grainy, wacky mini-parable, and a fitting title track for an album fueled by feelings of alienation. Here’s what happens: a long-haired Beck, oddly evoking Joni Mitchell, lopes inexpressively around the streets of a black-and-white Los Angeles. But he’s not as isolated as his new urban hippie vibe might lead you to assume—a moddish Anton Chigurh look-alike is stalking him, using the classic reconnaissance techniques of popping out from behind mailboxes...
McGraham's death will be prosecuted as first-degree murder, a capital offense, according to Los Angeles Police deputy chief Charlie Beck. Even as she mourned, Susanne McGraham-Paisley said, "The people who did this to him did the cause of understanding homelessness a great service. Because the way in which they killed him and the way in which he died and the community's response has clearly shown that people do have an interest in someone like our brother...