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• Reading List: April.

  Non-Fiction:Hanna Rosin: The End of Men and the Rise of Women.Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto.Fiction:Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake.Margaret Atwood: The Yea... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 28/4/16

  Pop Culture and Politics:Chicago After Laquan McDonald. Is Facebook trying to turn you into a Globalist? And how could Facebook, if it decided to, prevent a... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black – Watch the Others for Me.

  Orphan Black: 4x02 Transgressive Border Crossing.“This is a struggle over life and death, but the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 22/4/16

  Politics:Things are grim in Whyalla and for the manufacturing industry in Australia. IDEK, knee-jerk reaction to this is not being able to keep your... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black – Remember: Don’t Trust Anyone Next To You.

  Orphan Black: 4x01 The Collapse of Nature.Sarah: You’re her monitor. You observe her. And she killed herself because the man she loved turned her whole life int... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 8/4/16

  Politics: The Biggest Story: The Panama Papers reveal how the very rich, influential and famous live in a different world than the rest of us, thanks to firms... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: March.

  Non-Fiction:Oliver Burkeman - The Antidote. Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking.Daisy Hernández: A Cup of Water Under My Bed.Melissa Febos:... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 29/3/16 Compact Edition

  Politics: On Brussels, in many ways the centre of the European Union, a place that means nothing without freedom of movement: Brussels, that magnificent... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 21/3/16

  Politics: To understand Trump, looking at Western European populists provides a better framework than anything from US history. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Obama Doctrine

  The Atlantic analyses President Obama's foreign policy, and attempts to distill the ever elusive Obama doctrine from it, in this very long article (CSIS... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 10/3/16 Compact Version

  Politics: China is banning gay people on television.Germany is making a second run at banning the Neo-nazi party NPD. A previous attempt failed because the part... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 4/3/16

  

  Politics:They'll start writing books in 20 years how the baby boomers managed to fuck up the entire planet for all future generations while writing snarky... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: February

  Fiction:Nicola Griffith: Slow River. Nicola Griffith: Ammonite.Nicola Griffith: The Blue Place. Nicola Griffith: Stay. Nicola Griffith: Always. Kelley... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - i Adore Life.

  

  Adam Lupton [via tumblr]savages | adore. poliça | wedding. born in flamez modeselektor | tbf. thao the get down stay down. | departure. affelaye | fewer... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 29/2/16

  

  Politics:All the single ladies: "This is why the expansion of the population of unmarried women across classes signals a social and political rupture as profoun... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 19/2/16

  On the death of Antonin Scalia: This moment, with Scalia’s trademark snark, nicely sums up the paradox of how his religious views influenced his Supreme Court... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 4/2/16

  Politics:With his presidency nearing its end, The New Yorker asks if Obama is serious about closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay:Another, perhaps more... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: January

  Non-Fiction:Rebecca Solnit: A Paradise Built in Hell. Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost.Films:Carol (2015, Todd Haynes).Oddball (2015, Stuart... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Person of Interest

  

  In Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom outlines in great detail how difficult it would be to programme a superintelligent AI to do... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 11/1/16

  Welcome to the new year! North Korea detonated a bomb of some sorts, a situation that occurred to late to make it into the Crisis Group's Ten Conflicts To... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO