Alain de Botton’s Towering Temple Of Atheism
A sorely-needed place of reflection for the godless, or a giant publicity stunt? Discuss.
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Boat-Shaped Room To Be Built On Queen Elizabeth Hall
Coming soon to the South Bank: the most unusual riverside pied-a-terre since David Blaine’s perspex box.
Alain de Botton Takes Job At Heathrow Check-In Desk
Image / Haemmboerger Has the harsh economic climate driven philosopher and School of Life founder Alain de Botton to a gig at the grubby coalface of customer service? Not quite: according to The Observer, he’s taken a job at Terminal 5 in order to research …
Preview: Longplayer Conversation 2008
Jem Finer’s thousand-year musical composition Longplayer is now well into its first decade, and we still like to throw it out there as our favourite song just to trump everyone. What other single piece of music can we really, truly call the soundtrack of our …
Marketing the Ego
It would seem that a clutch of time-rich, very clever people (including no less than Alain de Botton) have opened an agency in Bloomsbury to flaunt their cleverness in front of time-poor, less clever people. The idea behind the School of Life is to help …
