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Public spaces, public places 8 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
One of the topics I’ve found myself writing on here more than I expected is that of public space – or, more precisely, its privatisation. I found it on my mind again on holiday in the Pyreneean villag...
Spies, security, and democracy 30 Jun 2013 | 01:00 pm
Now that the PRISM cat has been let out of the bag, the spies and former spies are coming out of the cupboards to do damage management. (I wrote a post about some of this last week). What’s interestin...
The cause of the suffering 29 Jun 2013 | 02:40 pm
I spotted this in a review by the critic Terry Eagleton: Bertolt Brecht tells the tale of a king in the East who was pained by all the suffering in the world. So he called his wise men together and a...
Out of the shadows 23 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
There’s a passage in the must-watch interview with the NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden that pulled me up short. He says: Even if you’re not doing anything wrong you’re being watched and recorded. …...
Why disco won 28 May 2013 | 12:40 am
I was watchng a documentary about the guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers, who together with his musical collaborator Bernard Edwards had, with Chic and (as producer) Sister Sledge, a golden run of hi...
1932 and all that 12 May 2013 | 04:42 pm
I’m indebted to a letter in The Guardian for this account by J K Galbraith of the history of the American economy between 1929′ the year of the Crash, and 1932, the last year of the Hoover administrat...
The curse of the invisible interface 9 May 2013 | 01:00 pm
"A device should show you what you need to do to make it work - the interface cues should be embedded in the design."
Losin’ the kids 5 May 2013 | 11:00 pm
There’s a deeper problem for Facebook. There’s a generational curve on social networking – the next generation of teens doesn’t want to do the same things as the previous one. And Facebook seems to ha...
‘Freedom’, ‘choice’, and zombie capitalism 12 Apr 2013 | 06:56 pm
Part of Thatcher's method was to split the language from the actions to create a new kind of 'performative politics' in which the political language used was disconnected from the thing itself. When T...
Ten notes on the financial crisis (guest post) 2 Apr 2013 | 06:00 pm
Over at the excellent Global Dashboard, Alex Evans has a post reflecting on the things he and David Stevens called wrong (and less wrong), looking through their development and poverty lens, in the af...
