Tag: politics

• 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 livestream queen makes nice with Beijing

  June 13, 2021

  Huang Wei tried to break into China’s showbiz in the mid-2000s. It didn’t work out. Fifteen years later, Huang, now 36, is a household name. Now known as Viya, Huang… 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 ›

• The $3bn bargain: how China dominates Pacific mining, logging and fishing

  May 31, 2021

  One country dominates the Pacific’s resources extraction. Guardian analysis of trade data has revealed that China received more than half the total tonnes of seafood, wood and minerals exported from… more ›

• 💡 What if every day was a pandemic day?

  May 30, 2021

  This is a member-only post I have made freely accessible. Until 27th November you can sign-up to Exponential View with a 27.18% discount. Scientists, take a bow. https://www.exponentialview.co/p/-what-if-every-day-was-a-pandemic more ›