The selection of the site for future Olympics has become a media event itself. Now there is a site that proposes the ice planet Hoth, from the Star Wars saga, as the site for the 2014 Winter Olympics. This is a wonderful example of how the Internet can take popular culture and remix it in new and imaginative ways outside of the mainstream coporate conception of culture.

 
George Orwell's 1984 was a product of its time as an allegory of the Soviet regime. But it also foretold elements that have become so commonplace today as to be less shocking than the stark landscape of the novel. These elements are now occuring in a non-communist context.

 
The failing of revolutions is that they postpone their goals into the future and require radical disruptive change. A renaissance can occur in the here and now and is an alteration of perspective that gets immediate results. The current age can be called a renaissance in that it allows the possibility for new forms of cooperation that were not part of the overriding ideals beforehand. A renaissance can be more successful than a revolution.

 
Ferrofluid is an interesting substance originally developed by NASA. It transforms itself into intriguing shapes when exposed to magnetism. It can create a temporary artwork that touches upon science and aesthetics.

 
In the 1800's there were various intentional communities. Brook Farm was one of them. These communes not only inspired the communal living experiments of the 1960's and 1970's, but offered utopian socialism in practice before the rise of Marxism and scientific communism. Their history, including their successes and failures, offer an alternative to modern living.

 
The rise of new protests demand the creation of new protest songs. Even though the music of the 1960's was inspirational, they spoke to particular events of that decade. In order to show that working for peace today is not a form of nostalgia there needs to be new art to talk about the unique struggle that is occurring today.

 
The ideology of capitalism involves an overriding narrative that structures all practices by creating one meaning for production without revealing how the structure works. But the creation of smaller ideologies within the larger ideology can reveal its influence by showing how it works in an explicit way. At that point practices can change in substantial ways that alter ideology.