My essay in the pamphlet Five Critical Essays on Growth, edited by Austin Williams of the Future Cities Project, has just been published (read it on Spy). The other contributors are Phil Mullan (@Phil_Mullan) Charlie Winstanley (@cfwinstanley) Mark Iddon (@Mark_Iddon) and Shiv Malik (@shivmalik). Foreword by Austin Williams (@Future_Cities) [ed.] and afterword by Patrik …
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Interview: TEN podcast on discourse and ideas
In an interview, I discuss modern public discourse, ways of understanding and thinking, and the politics of ICT
Report: General Election Hustings: Science, Research, Technology and Innovation, 19/11/2019 (The Royal Society)
In the run-up to the 2019 General Election, representatives from the main political parties were invited to outline their party’s election position on Science, Research, Technology and Innovation
Article: dmi:Review ‘Design, Didacticism, and the Dignity of People’, 2019
In this article I argue that there is an orthodoxy in the design profession, which is a product of ‘not knowing what you don’t know’, a tendency to create filter bubbles, and ‘bad faith’ humanism. The design industries embrace diversity in everything except politics; users are at the centre except when their views don’t fit. …
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Exhibition: Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932 (Royal Academy of Arts)
In February 2017 the Royal Academy of Arts opens Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932