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Eisenstein’s kaleidoscope

October 16, 2014September 1, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

Notes on a rare showing of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterpiece Battleship Potemkin.

Categories Design, Politics, Reviews
Battle Beyond the Sun movie poster

Engineering utopia

October 12, 2014September 1, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty is not just any old history of post-war Soviet cybernetic mathematical modelling. This is an account of centrally administered resource allocation quite unlike any other.

Categories Economics, Literature, Politics, Reviews, Science Fiction, Technology
Ancient Sound (detail), Paul Klee, 1925

The Rules of Abstraction

September 15, 2014September 1, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

The Rules of Abstraction, a BBC4 documentary by the artist and writer Matthew Collings, shown last week and still available at the time of writing, was an accessible introduction to the enigmatic world of abstract art.

Categories Art, Design, Politics, Reviews
View of Edinburgh from the Salisbury Crags

Caledonian Dreaming

September 12, 2014September 1, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

Gerry Hassan’s Caledonian Dreaming argues that the ills of Scottish society for which independence is proposed as the cure have as much to do with Scotland’s own failings as the interventions of unwanted British governments.

Categories Politics, Reviews

Yes: The Radical Case for Independence

September 6, 2014September 1, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

As Scotland’s independence referendum approaches I thought I would review some of the better books and essays I’ve read about it over the past few months. One of those is Yes: The Radical Case for Independence by James Foley and Pete Ramand.

Categories Economics, Politics, Reviews
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Kosmonaut Zero

September 4, 2014September 1, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

Richard Evans’ science fiction novel Kosmonaut Zero is a clever commentary on the perennial human desire to transcend the limitations of the body.

Categories Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Reviews, Science Fiction, Technology
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