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Month: January 2018

21st century monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Artificial Intelligence

January 29, 2018February 17, 2018 by Justin Reynolds

Mary’s Shelley’s great novel, published 200 years ago this month, retains a peculiar relevance, resonating with today’s hopes and fears for the possibilities opened by artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology.

Categories Featured, Literature, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Technology

Futura: a brief cultural history

January 15, 2018January 15, 2018 by Justin Reynolds

Helvetica may still be the only typeface to have starred in a movie. But another great European font, which turned 90 this year, has had a still more profound impact on the world’s visual culture. An excerpt from a feature on the cultural history of the typeface Futura I wrote for The New European.

Categories Art, Design, Featured, Politics, Reviews

Can the land be divided? Israel, Palestine and the ‘parallel states solution’

January 2, 2018January 15, 2018 by Justin Reynolds

Might it be possible to design some form of confederacy preserving Israeli and Palestinian nationhood while granting mutual access to the same territory? I look at the ‘parallel states solution’ in light of the White House’s decision to unilaterally recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Categories Politics, Theology

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