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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....

A Battle of Wills, and Bowels (The Smuggler)

20/02/2016

An outlandish premise, played with subltety, The Smuggler teases unlikely laughs from the basest of subjects. Review...

Adios, Sandernistas, Clintons Don’t Take Kindly to Revolution

19/02/2016

Slurs and superdelegates. Now that Sanders has rattled the Clinton camp, the slapdown begins. Essay...

The Timeline of Being a Woman

17/02/2016

Political activist Lisa Muggeridge chronicles the ways culture, politics and society combine to control women's lives....

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....

One of Us? Identity Politics and How Donald Trump Rides Them

13/02/2016

Still trying to understand the appeal of Donald Trump? The slick shortcut of identity politics, explained....

Trumped, But Not Out. Identity Politics in America, and the new Other

06/02/2016

An essay on how demographics have changed America, and how this affects the politics of identity....

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...

The Tr(i)ump(h) of Identity Politics

02/02/2016

Something about Donald Trump appeals to a large number of American voters. What is it? Douglas Bulloch offers some answers....

The Man in the Amazon Castle (No Spoilers)

30/01/2016

Amazon Prime and Ridley Scott team up to bring Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle to the screen. Trebuchet recommends...

David Bowie, Time Travel and a film called Interstellar

29/01/2016

Reminiscences of Bowie are Proustian moments of total recall, but they can also link generations. A story of memory and hope ...

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (Film)

22/01/2016

The story that proved we CAN fight Big Pharma, Attacking the Devil is a rallying cry to the spirit of truth...

Osiris is a Black Star (David Bowie and the Occult)

21/01/2016

Bowie, Elvis, Death & the Egyptian Underworld...

Cuddly Dictators and Visible Boredom: Lost in Karastan

20/01/2016

Lost in Karastan is a slightly infuriating missed opportunity, albeit with some charm...

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...

David Bowie, Cuts, and Why ‘Culture’ is becoming Another Planet

16/01/2016

Bowie's mere presence personified the power and relevance of a cultured society that appreciated and allowed him to emerge and for the rest of us to reach for those rewarding stars as well...

All Heroes Must Fall. Farewell to a Space Oddity (David Bowie)

12/01/2016

Bowie drew from the symbols and semiotics of myth, contemporising archetypes which have been crucial to humanity's concept of itself since time unrecorded....

The Movements of the Idiot: Are We All Ironic Now?

10/01/2016

Self-knowing idiocy. We either join in or shut up....

When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night

07/01/2016

By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness....

Of Short Cinema and Semiotics: PoetryFilm

05/01/2016

PoetryFilm: image, text and sound techniques in very experimental forms...

Star Wars and the Escapism of the Mindless

29/12/2015

What will a future Democratic president's agenda will entail? Hint: Take note of which Republican declarations Democratic partisans are fuming in self-righteous outrage against now....

Is There Just Too Much of Everything?

25/12/2015

Our digital world of abundance and choice might be shortening our attention spans...

Sounds Unfair: The Plight of Britain’s Independent Music Venues

21/12/2015

A quiet disaster has been happening in our town and city centres, only now are we doing something about it...

Weapon Wielding White Males and Imperial Warmongers

16/12/2015

Homegrown terrorists perpetrate rampage after rampage. And yet again: Mainstream pundits ask why...

Fear and Fascism: Tools of the Trade

05/12/2015

To persist, the capitalist order demands submission to ruthless authority and must peddle fear of an alien other....

The Other Dave: The Tory Leader We Could Have Had

28/11/2015

The man Cameron beat to the Tory leadership proves how different things could’ve been...

Attack, Retaliate, Attack. When Will it End?

23/11/2015

If their designs work out as planned, the elite will, as they always have, enrich their already engorged fortunes on the suffering and death of the powerless....

A Human Instinct for War? Sociologist Hugh Gusterson Explains

21/11/2015

Terrorism is a tactic. You usually ﬁght war against a constituent. It’s hard to ﬁght a war against a tactic. - Interview with Hugh Gusterson, sociologist ...

No bad religions, only bad apples: Echoes (Henry Naylor)

19/11/2015

One very socially relevant idea prevails: religion not as the cause of evil, but as the facilitator for evil people to do evil things....

Strive to Shirk, Why Hard Work Doesn’t Work

14/11/2015

No wonder governments like to advocate 'hard work'. The last thing they want is people with minds and lives of their own. Overworked people know their place. ...

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