Code-X (32)

By: Joshua Glenn
October 4, 2014

vuitton connery

Call this cultural code: British Cosmopolitanism.

Definition: The last and best remnant of Britain’s lost empire — a natural, organic cosmopolitanism.

economist

Notes on this code: Americans have the sense that our own media covers local news primarily, national news to a lesser degree, international news almost not at all. Clipped, authoritative BBC voices on the radio; the Economist’s outside-in take on US politics and economics = objective truth. No-nonsense pragmatism.

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Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Boston.