Tag: global affairs

• What Are We Going to Wear?

  July 2, 2021

  The world of retail runs on predicting the future. What you buy in July was decided on in November. Trendspotting used to happen largely in person — retailers had eyes… more ›

• Beyond the Meme: Ever Given, Supply Chains, and the Physical World

  June 20, 2021

  For all we may talk about software eating the world, it’s clear (and became a lot clearer during the PPE shortages of the early pandemic) that the physical world still… more ›

• The role of the arts and humanities in thinking about artificial intelligence (AI)

  June 20, 2021

  What is the contribution that the arts and humanities can make to our engagement with the increasingly pervasive technology of artificial intelligence? My aim in this short article is to… more ›

• It is time to end pushbacks and to abolish Frontex

  June 20, 2021

  An informal migrant camp in Serbia. Photo by Abdul Saboor The European Union’s border regime has been rapidly expanding in the past years, especially since the so-called “refugee crisis” of… more ›

• ‘Cultural appropriation is a two-way thing’: Yinka Shonibare on Picasso, masks and the fashion for black artists

  June 15, 2021

  “After Matisse showed Picasso African art for the first time,” he says, “it changed the history of modern art.” This is no hyperbole. It immediately led Picasso to repaint Les Demoiselles… more ›

• Do Better Better #7: The New Externalities

  June 13, 2021

  Questions might include — what’s changed over the past decade, and why? What about over the past year? Who are the industry leaders by revenue, profit, and growth? Are they… more ›

• The Tyranny Of Time

  June 13, 2021

  On a damp and cloudy afternoon on February 15, 1894, a man walked through Greenwich Park in East London. His name was Martial Bourdin — French, 26 years of age,… more ›

• China’s takeover of Western capitalism

  June 13, 2021

  Congenica is not the sort of company a lot of people follow closely. The Cambridge-based start-up specialises in genomics, an area most of us struggle to understand. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/chinas-takeover-of-western-capitalism/ more ›

• ‘A question of dignity’: the pathologist identifying migrants drowned in the Med

  June 6, 2021

  Since 2013, Cattaneo, a professor of forensic pathology and head of Labanof (the laboratory of forensic anthropology and odontology) at the University of Milan, has been committed to putting a name to… more ›

• How the World Ran Out of Everything

  June 1, 2021

  Global shortages of many goods reflect the disruption of the pandemic combined with decades of companies limiting their inventories. In the story of how the modern world was constructed, Toyota… more ›