Month: October 2019

  • Murketing / Agency

    Ryan Alexander Diduck at tQ on the demise of R*d B*ll Music Academy: We no longer recognise brands and commodities as socially constructed, so we want to oversimplify and assign agency to them – agency that is really much more chaotically distributed, structurally prescribed, and historically driven. We tend to say, for instance, that the…

  • Huddersfield

  • 29OCT2019

  • Small Smart Objects

    … as opposed to the traditional sf plot-engine staple of the Big Dumb Object. Madeline Ashby and Charlie Jane Anders interviewed-in-conversation at Slate (and edited further by me for concision): Charlie Jane: […] That’s something that always bugs me, the ways that tech is designed to be opaque. Madeline: Right, I think that’s the nature of writing…

  • 28OCT2019