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Saw it Coming. Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells

17/06/2016

On the 150th anniversary of his birth, H.G. Wells continues to inspire. ...

All Wrong: the misguided adventures of an art world hero (Grayson Perry)

26/05/2016

The roving potter lines up his newest quaint exhibits: the northern working classes...

In, Out, Shake it All About. What Politicians Forget About a Unified Europe (Part Three)

12/05/2016

Beyond nationalism, economics and finance, there are sound reasons for a unified Europe. Its bloody history among them. Essay...

In, Out, Shake it All About. What Politicians Forget About a Unified Europe (Part Two)

05/05/2016

History provides a template for the society we live in. Outside of Europe, Britain would only have its own....

In, Out, Shake it All About. What Politicians Forget About a Unified Europe

27/04/2016

Beyond the fiscal spreadsheets and the chest-beating nationalism, there are lesser-reported nuances to the European membership debate. Essay...

Nothing Happens at All, Part Three: Charity

16/04/2016

If possessions enslave us, and suffering numbs us, what gives us a warm, if impotent, glow? Charity...

Debt, Housing, Creative Solutions: Construct the Future at Hoxton Gallery

11/04/2016

Native's Hoxton Gallery show draws attention to the modern debt/housing crisis, but less typically, suggests solutions...

Possessions, Suffering, Charity: Why Nothing Ever Happens (Part Two)

08/04/2016

Far from de-sensitizing us, repeated media imagery of suffering neatly cows us into lucrative obesiance...

(Why) Nothing Ever Happens, Nothing Happens at All

31/03/2016

Possessions, Suffering, Charity. A trinity to stultify a population and assuage the morality of the comfortable pragmatists....

Caliban’s Rage at the Blank Touchscreen: On Becoming a 21st Century Savage

21/03/2016

The acceleration of technology beyond the layman's ken makes us little more than blissfully ignorant slaves - should we not be noble savages instead? ...

After the Revolution, Beyond the Randian Superhero.

10/03/2016

Should we be grubbing for the favours of the benevolent altruist, or forging a fairer world for all? Essay on the false prophets of philanthropy...

Why the Size of Trump’s Hands Matters: Deconstructing the Randian Superman

05/03/2016

The business superman is Better Than You: examining Ayn Rand's construction of that most pertinent of myths...

The Right Business: Politics and the Randian Hero

26/02/2016

Wealth does not denote moral worth, so why does it make politicians popular? Essay...

Stimulating the Simulcra. Can Humans be Trusted With Artificial Intelligence?

22/02/2016

Can such a flawed race create anything but accelerated evil? Examining free will, AI technology, and addictive stimulus....

I Can’t Do that, Dave. Artificial Intelligence, Dada and the Ethics of Perception

16/02/2016

Are humans worthy to create more powerful beings 'in our own image'? Essay....

Sure we can, but SHOULD we? Digital Head and the Ethics of Intelligence

05/02/2016

Examining the unpredictable and disruptive possibilities contained within new technologies...

(Turk) (Must) (Do) (Better) A Critical Review of Wittgenstein’s Dream

25/01/2016

Can we safely dismiss Freudian psychoanalysis with the lancet of irony? Or does the attempt fail? Gavin Turk at the Freud Museum ...

The Movements of the Idiot: Are We All Ironic Now? (Part Two)

18/01/2016

Handling irony is like handling plutonium: you must be careful that the radiation doesn’t kill you, or at least rob you of the ability to make meanings and give force to ideas...