The active role for culture in a divided nation
A surprising number of people have said to me lately that they don’t know any Leave supporters at all. So I
Tag: geopolitics
Critical art and outer space: examining space as a global commons
The ‘Critical Issues in Outer Space’ session at the Association of American Geographers’ huge Annual Meeting in San Francisco last
Aerocene – flight without borders
In the dunes of White Sands desert, on Sunday 8th November 2015, for the first time in the world,
Some responses to War at the speed of light …
A couple of recent interesting blog posts have picked up on my War at the Speed of Light: artists and drone
War at the speed of light: artists and drone warfare
“We call it in, and we’re given all the clearances that are necessary, all the approvals and everything else, and
Nuclear landscapes: exploring New Mexico’s atomic legacy
Looking out towards Trinity Ground Zero (20 miles away), New Mexico My first trip to the States, in 1997, was
Ruins, conflict, culture and science: dOCUMENTA (13)
Many adjectives have already been wielded to describe this year’s documenta, “earnest”, “grim”, “despondent” and “concept-less” among them. Certainly, there
2012: autonomous infrastructures, uneasy energies, and the machine wilderness …
Yahoo. 2012! What’s coming up this year in the art/science world? Here’s a highly subjective list of things I’m looking
Republic of the Moon opens in Liverpool 16 December
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, We Colonised the Moon, Andy Gracie, Leonid Tishkov, Liliane Lijn, Sharon Houkema FACT, Wood Street, Liverpool 16 December
Zimbabwe in Venice
In a deliciously candid symposium at Iniva yesterday, Raphael Chikukwa, curator of the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this
Realities and dreams: Africa in space
Today is the last day of the 62nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Cape Town, South Africa. The IAC is
Science diplomacy 2: From the High Arctic to central Africa
Day 2 at the Royal Society’s meeting on science democracy. Finally, the issue of interdisciplinarity was raised by Stephen Hillier from
Science diplomacy 1: International cooperation to neo-functionalism
This week I’ve been at the Royal Society’s international meeting on science diplomacy. What is science diplomacy? Most people here seem
Tehran (Part 1)
Tehran blog – Friday and Saturday My Iranian visa came very late, so the others – this is a visit
Who thought up consumerism?
I attended the first in a series of Arts & Ecology Exchanges at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) on
