Book Review: The Arcades Project.
Walter Benjamin had collated The Arcades Project [Das Passagenwerk] between 1927 and 1940. It is very much a book that …
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Philip Hammond: A Political Obituary.
With Boris Johnson in, and Theresa May out, it looks like the shaking-all-about might finally loosen one of the UK’s …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Adam Smith – The Invisible Hand.
The economist and philosopher Adam Smith had lived in Edinburgh’s Panmure House between 1778 and his death in 1790. In …
Book Review: Who’s Your City?
[This is old material, being first published on Tychy in 2014 as part of a series on city states. For …
Book Review: Cities and the Wealth of Nations.
[This is old material, being first published on Tychy in 2014 as part of a series on city states. For …
My First Robot.
The ILIFE V5s is about the size of a cherry pie and it is twice as sweet. You put it …
Start-Ups In Season.
A story leapt out of my news feed on Monday morning that may well put me in a good mood …
Book Review: Chasing the Chinese Dream.
Nick Holdstock is a writer to keep an eye on. His debut novel The Casualties (2015) had counted down to …
Catalan Nationalism versus City Statehood for Barcelona.
Catalan independence is still, despite everything, inconceivable. It is still all but a political impossibility. For a start, there is …
Book Reviews: Inventing the Future and Creative Destruction.
Cor, I miss the days when that crate was in the air. I can remember staying at me Nan’s in …
Book Reviews: The Precariat and Rise of the Robots.
A thought experiment to warm up with. Imagine that Google was an entirely corporeal phenomenon, like the National Library of …
A President For All Americans?
Ever since I watched the footage of President Trump’s inauguration last week, some words have been playing distantly in my …
Councillor Matt Kerr: A Working Class Humbug Is Something To Be.
The Universal Basic Income is an idea in search of a home. A UBI would leave everybody in society on …
Book Review – The Corporation Wars: Dissidence.
Now the hurly-burly’s done, or at least now that we are on the sunny side of Brexit, let us catch …
Democracy on Trial: Campaign Butterflies.
The anticipation is immense. The suspense is spellbinding. Although it is conventional to look down upon democracy as being dry …
