The pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the massive inequalities on which the “old normal” world was built on, and given us privileged people a taste of what has long been the reality for far too many people all over the world. We cannot scream about our rights to move and consume when that lifestyle is based on so many others being denied those same rights.
Category: politics
![Pandemic Party](https://www.creative-catalyst.com/expect/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/pandemic_party_poster-800x477.png)
Furtherfield, my favourite online community, has started a new podcast, “News from where we are”,iInspired by reports from members of the Netbehaviour email list located around the world. I’m delighted to be included in the first episode, which was published on Friday 10 April.
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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
![How the 2019 UK general election results would look under MMP (from the Electoral Reform Society twitter account)](https://www.creative-catalyst.com/expect/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MMP_results.png)
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.
![This computer illustration depicts the density of space junk around Earth in low-Earth orbit. (Image: © ESA)](https://www.creative-catalyst.com/expect/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/spacejunk-650x500.jpg)
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?
![The Glasgow Effect by Ellie Harrison](https://www.creative-catalyst.com/expect/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/GlasgowEffect-767x500.png)
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.”
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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!
![Weltreise München](https://www.creative-catalyst.com/expect/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weltreise_münchen_06-800x500.jpg)
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
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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