As catastrophic fires burn out of control across large areas of Australia, decimating wildlife and ancient forests as well as taking out homes and humans,Read More
Category: politics
If the UK had a proportional electoral system instead of the undemocratic “first past the post” system, Thursday’s general election could have delivered very different – and more representative – results.
5G is being rolled out literally across the world – with thousands of satellites launched into the ionosphere to blanket the planet with millimetre microwaves. What are the environmental and public health impacts of this technology? Who is regulating it, and who stands to benefit? Do we really need 5G?
I’ve just finished reading Ellie Harrison’s inspirational book, The Glasgow Effect, which has the byline “a tale of class, capitalism and carbon footprint”. It tells the story of Ellie’s one-year project to “not travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except my bike, for a whole calendar year.”
Congratulations to neural.it, editor Alessandro Ludovico and the many contributors on 25 years of bringing critical discussion on new media art, electronic music and hacktivism to the world!
A few months go, the Munich artist Tommy Schmidt invited me to be part of his project “Weltreise München“. The concept, he explained over aRead More
How often do you encounter an image captcha when logging into a website? I probably meet one or two a week, instructing me to “clickRead More
Five or ten years ago, when I made comments about capitalism being broken, having failed or being dead, my friends would dismiss it as aRead More
Last week I participated in “Letters to the Earth“, a global cultural response to the climate and ecological crisis. Following an open call for theRead More
The horrific attack in Christchurch on Friday is a wake-up call to New Zealand’s racism and our weak gun laws. But let’s not forget the school students’ marches that also took place on Friday, signalling hope and positive change for the future.