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Hidden in plain sight

For many people, it is now difficult to let 24 hours pass without either sending or receiving an email, using some form of social media or managing finances and other matters online. Behind the seductive comfort of all this are data centres which store the text, pictures and information.   […]

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Capitalism creates desires

Popular culture enjoins us to follow our desires, to pursue our dreams. But is it sufficient? This can be considered exteriorly and interiorly.   Steve Latham   Exteriorly, we must ask: Do we really want what we want? It is a commonplace observation that capitalism creates desires, for objects and […]

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Police: the ‘soul’ of cities

Everyday life forced early man to defend himself against the threats of the environment, whereby it started to plan, create and apply this concept until it became an actual entity.   Silvio Gonzalez   The first institutionalised police force that came about in the modern world was in the UK, […]

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Dreams and nightmares

The word ‘energy’ comes from the ancient Greek noun ‘ergon’, meaning work, and in English ‘work’ can be a noun or a verb; hence the words energy and energise.   Sean Sheehan   No surprise, then, to find more than one meaning in the title of Michael Marder’s book, “Energy […]