This is an era - it is often said - when things are speeding up, and spreading out. Capital is going through a new phase of internationalization, especially in its financial parts. More people travel more frequently and for longer distances. Your clothes have probably made in a range of countries from Latin America to South-East Asia. Dinner consists of food shipped in from all over the world. And if you have a screen in your office, instead of opening a letter which - care of Her Majesty's Post Office - has taken some days to wend its way across the country, you now get interrupted by e- mail. This view of the current age is one now frequently found in a wide range of books and journals. Much of what is written about space, place and postmodern times emphasizes a new phase in what Marx once called 'the annihilation of space by time'. The process is argued, or - more usually - asserted, to have gained a new momentum, to have reached a new stage. It is a phenomenon which h
Hi My names Fia and this is my blog One Leaf Extra. The name is one of those names you come up with at some random moment and you think would be a good brand name if you ever started so you note it down. I don't see myself starting a company anytime soon so this name will be used for my blog. The two other names I came up with included the unoriginal Fia's Blog, Monkeys 'n' Moustaches (another one of these random brand names but has an interesting story behind it if you want to hear it one day). However, I decided One Leaf Extra was better suited as it suggested some positivity that I desperately need right now and would probably want in the future. My plan as of writing this is that this blog will be a record of all the weird crazes, fads and hobbies I have over the years and may even include some reminiscing of thing I did when I was younger and will serve you as hopefully entertainment and me as a record of my life. The idea to write a blog is a new and old idea. I