'What is the reality to which this crisis is spectacle? - Alain Badiou
Interview with Zaha Hadid - Jonathon Meades for Intelligent Life

On first glance there is little to link Alain Badiou and Jonathon Meades. The articles they have written target different audiences were originally written in different langauges and consider different topics. Both however are a discourse on modern day life.
A financial, all encompassing, crisis and a female architect marking the planet in her own manner.

Alain Badiou, author, journalist, political commentator writes of the financial crisis, his piece conveying the sense of abstracted reality associated by many to this 'spectacle'. A cineramic metaphor running through his ironic view of the disaster. It is tongue in cheek writing with Badiou appreciating the far reaching consequences and opprtunities the financial collapse had and arguably still has. An opportunity for people to recapture reality.

Joanthon Meades' article is an interesting foil to Badiou's. It is about an individual who is very present - not simply a spectator; her work part of the fabric of modern day life. It can be argued however that it is also is an article which suggests a particular brand of architecture is distanced from reality - similar to the financial crisis.