Mainly culled from things I’ve linked to elsewhere to prompt me to look into them further.
“Neo-Tribalism is the ideology that human beings have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a mass, modern society, and thus cannot achieve genuine happiness until some semblance of tribal lifestyles has been re-created or re-embraced.”
Modern Tribalism “We set out on a crusade to document, to learn and hopefully to inspire. We treated our interviewees as the wise elders who would guide us on our way, and the modern tribalists as our fellow warriors — unenlightened but pure of heart. What we learned about ourselves in the process is as important as what we have brought to the screen. The result is a film that is part ethnographic field study and part rite of passage, set to the hum of technolgy and the beat of a tribal drum.”
“Dunbar’s number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person. Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restricted rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar’s number, but a commonly cited approximation is 150.”
Deadly Vibrations. A Brief History of Sonic Warfare “Human beings respond to certain categories of sound in a number of complex ways involving auditory perception and psycho-physiological response mechanisms rendered through the brain. Certain species of sound above (ultrasound) or below (infrasound) the levels of human auditory perception would theoretically prove most effective within the crucible of warfare.”
Sonic Warfare “Goodman concludes with speculations on the not yet heard—the concept of unsound, which relates to both the peripheries of auditory perception and the unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within audible bandwidths.” Also, blog site instigated by the book release.
“London Necropolis Railway Station was a special railway station constructed by the London Necropolis Company for funeral trains, specifically to serve their Brookwood Cemetery.”
The Cemetery Railway “Radio 4 broadcast a thirty minute documentary “One Way to the Necropolis” on the cemetery railway on Monday 7th February 2005 at 8.30pm.” - Wouldn’t mind hearing that.
London’s Necropolis Train “LNC justified the higher fares it charged for First Class coffin accommodation by pointing to the higher degree of decoration provided on its First Class coffin cell doors and the greater degree of care which First Class coffins were given at both ends of the journey”
