Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Technology & The City
Humans Are the Sex Organs of Technology
I claim that technology has its own agenda. What is the evidence that technology as a whole, or the technium as I call it, is autonomous?
Kevin Kelly, Technium, 16 February 2007
I claim that technology has its own agenda. What is the evidence that technology as a whole, or the technium as I call it, is autonomous?
Kevin Kelly, Technium, 16 February 2007
Beyond Three Gorges in China
The Three Gorges dam has attracted all the headlines but several other major hydro schemes are being developed in China that will rank in the world's top ten.
Neil Ford, International Water Power and Dam Construction, 10 January 2007
The Three Gorges dam has attracted all the headlines but several other major hydro schemes are being developed in China that will rank in the world's top ten.
Neil Ford, International Water Power and Dam Construction, 10 January 2007
Speeding towards the future
'We've simply replaced intrepidness with anxiousness when we travel. There is a visionary project of achieving cheap, clean and plentiful energy which we need to address.'
Peter Martin, Engaging Cogs, 2006
'We've simply replaced intrepidness with anxiousness when we travel. There is a visionary project of achieving cheap, clean and plentiful energy which we need to address.'
Peter Martin, Engaging Cogs, 2006
Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?
To understand their role in socialising today’s youth, educators need to explore the social dynamics of mediated public life like social network sites
Danah Boyd, The Knowledge Tree, Edition 13, 2006
To understand their role in socialising today’s youth, educators need to explore the social dynamics of mediated public life like social network sites
Danah Boyd, The Knowledge Tree, Edition 13, 2006
The Social SoftWar
Conflicts on the net, as elsewhere, need not have recourse to a labour theory of rights to be political struggles
Angela Mitropoulos, Mute Magazine, 31 December 2006
Conflicts on the net, as elsewhere, need not have recourse to a labour theory of rights to be political struggles
Angela Mitropoulos, Mute Magazine, 31 December 2006
Estates: An Intimate History
In this history of social housing, the ideal is played off against the socio-economic reality
Lynsey Hanley, Granta, 2006
Re-designing the game
The old economic drivers of productivity and growth are finally giving way to energy and waste conscious objectives. As the Designs of the Time initiative (Dott) shows, this means designers can now help to 'modify everyday patterns of activity'
John Thackara, Doors of perception, 6 December 2006
The old economic drivers of productivity and growth are finally giving way to energy and waste conscious objectives. As the Designs of the Time initiative (Dott) shows, this means designers can now help to 'modify everyday patterns of activity'
John Thackara, Doors of perception, 6 December 2006
Government’s response to Paul Robert’s report on nurturing creativity in young people
With the ‘creative industries’ deemed central to the UK economy, the government outlines how UK education can foster the ability ‘to think or behave imaginatively’
various, DCMS, 31 October 2006
With the ‘creative industries’ deemed central to the UK economy, the government outlines how UK education can foster the ability ‘to think or behave imaginatively’
various, DCMS, 31 October 2006
What is the greenest way to get around?
Stopping urban 4x4's, push-bikes and bendy-buses - the answer to the transport question?
Lucy Siegle, Guardian, 30 September 2006
Stopping urban 4x4's, push-bikes and bendy-buses - the answer to the transport question?
Lucy Siegle, Guardian, 30 September 2006
The Credit Crunch Demystified
"A superb brainstorming of gritty brinkmanship. Totally mind-stretching and wonderful."
Humphrey Hawksley, BBC World Affairs correspondent
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