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London life – the past and the future
In the same week: A meeting at Google Campus London – a superb space, a hive of activity, buzzing with energy and ideas, casual, and a wonderful vibe. An invitation to a reception at the British...
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Mash-up culture
If one trope could define the full diversity of artistic endeavour in this Millenium period, it is the mash-up. For visual art, we have become used to collages of images, videos, fashion, and even...
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Why do we read? Many people seem to assume that the only reason for reading is to obtain information about the world. With this view, reading fiction is perhaps hard to justify. But if one only reads...
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Hackathon life
At the first Internet of Things and Distributed Ledgers Hackathon, Barclays Rise Hackspace, Notting Hill, London, 7 November 2015.
View ArticlePossible Worlds
This is a list of movies which play with alternative possible realities, in various ways: It’s a Wonderful Life [Frank Capra, USA 1947] Przypadek (Blind Chance) [Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland 1987] Lola...
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Back in the USSR
How clever of Co-operatives UK, the association of British co-operatives, to design a logo that brings to mind the Cyrillic acronym of the USSR, CCCP. For leftists of a certain age, this would be a...
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The need for enchantment
I just described our contemporary western culture as pseudo-rationalist materialism arising from a Protestant disdain for the supernatural, pagan aspects of Catholicism. I recalled a 2015 column by...
View ArticleGleichgewichtzustandwiederherstellungsmoeglichkeit
Gleichgewichtzustandwiederherstellungsmoeglichkeit (German, noun): The possibility of re-establishing a condition of equilibrium.
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Friends Best
The streaming series Young Royals, produced by Netflix Sverige, is a coming-of-age story about teenagers with the unusual feature that the main actors are themselves only teenagers. (Most series aimed...
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