Camouflaged as democratic, we are living in times of false liberty, where each person feels free to dress and be… different, but nowadays ‘different’ is just an adjective: everyone is the same, and if they didn’t conform they would be different… Isabel Soto Mayedo In an era […]
In Focus
In Focus
Coronanomics: the new normal
As states have responded to the Coronavirus, with extended powers of lockdown, and aid to business combined with increased welfare provisions, a new term has entered our vocabulary. Steve Latham “Coronanomics” describes this process of growing government control. In a rejection of neo-liberalism, even the Right has adopted […]
It all tastes of failure
The British Empire, so secure when Nona Baker, a young Englishwoman, sails to Malaya in the 1930s, was in tatters when she returned home in 1945. Sean Sheehan Her story of those tumultuous years, “Pai Naa”, mirroring the contours of war, empire and colonization, is a heartfelt tale, […]
African-Caribbean slavery and the present-day industrial slavery
More than half the world’s cobalt used in smart phones and similar gadgets comes from the Democratic (sic) Republic of Congo. Around 40,000 children are labouring in mines, many in Congo’s cobalt mines. Nigel Pocock The biggest of these mines are Chinese subsidiaries. Microsoft, one of the most […]
City feelings
To understand, and act effectively within, the city, we need multi-level empirical research: macro-analyses of statistics, figures, and algorithms; and micro-studies, from interviews and focus groups. Steve Latham These require integrating in a cybernetic approach to the city’s many systems: business, the arts, education, and politics. And […]
















