Tom Frank: Perpetual Revolution (Le Monde Diplomatique,May 2001) (from nettime)

[Gordon Fitch]

Carl Recmick:
> >How long can one sustain a *tradition* of casual dress in the workplace 
> >without the practice being recognized as simply another phony gesture of 
> >subversiveness -- indeed, as a restrictive convention?

Cotton Mather:
> "Your very prosperity hurts you; Your Adversary lays the Chains of Death 
> upon you. . . . Damn'd unto torments; must undergo a strange Punishment, 
> and a long one which is Reserved in a Future State, for the workers of 
> iniquity"

Jim Westrich:
> Around 30% of men (if a public health article about 10 years ago was 
> accurate) wear ties that restrict blood flow to their brains, so casual 
> dress is also about efficiency.

This assumes, gratuitously, that having an active brain running
on all cylinders is conducive to workplace efficiency.