Despite the movement's communitarian ethos, from the outside it can seem incestuous and insular.
It also embodies the Jules Marquis ethos: from the outside, it's a shed in a field; inside, it's a big-city-gallery-style white box lighted by symmetrical fluorescent tubes.
The Sick of the Fringe is a project that supports artists and theatre-makers to get outside their comfort zones, to explore new and different ways of thinking and working, and so, embracing that ethos, I stepped outside mine.
In my piece "Obama's Lost Year," I tried to describe from the outside the ethos of the Obama White House: the way in which it makes decisions and governs, its rhetoric and temper, its emphases and blind spots.
By George Packer March 10 , 2010In my piece "Obama's Lost Year," I tried to describe from the outside the ethos of the Obama White House: the way in which it makes decisions and governs, its rhetoric and temper, its emphases and blind spots.
The ethos of learning outside the classroom is embedded in the school's curriculum and is seen as a crucial part of helping to develop the life skills of the 57 pupils at this special school aged between two to 19, who have severe, profound or multiple learning difficulties.
Foucault did, nevertheless, successfully maintain a critical ethos that was able to operate outside of conventional politics.
This was partly about pride, and arrogance, but it was also consistent with an ethos that has prevailed since China opened itself to the outside world in 1978: foreigners are not invited to China to profiteer; they are invited to make the Chinese better.
That "share more" ethos has become canonical within technology companies outside of Facebook, as well — a free product necessitates advertising as a business model, which means they are selling you, and they need more of you to sell more things.
Somewhere along the way however, making the world a better place became more of a punchline than an ethos, and breaking things has become what we are best known for outside Silicon Valley.
