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Giving Up The Internet: It’s Never About The Tools
Tech writer Paul Miller’s contentious experiment to log-off from internet devices for a whole year is coming to an end in two weeks (HT Maggi Dawn for the story, which she flagged on facebook this...
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Digital Privacy: Techno-Conservatism, or a Matter of Freedom?
Brilliant weekend away over the Bank Holiday, with loads of surfing, go-karting and some great evening conversations with a bright and challenging bunch of friends. One of the most interesting areas...
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New Poem: Park
Park They will come here all of them in different groups and all of them do what they shouldn’t ………………………….like smoke on benches let dogs run wild climb up slides and push. This is the park where, on...
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Iron Man 3 | After Magic | Mechanics and Craftsmen
Having been urged by lots of After Magic readers to go and see Iron Man 3, I saw it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. The series has always had more biting wit that similar franchises, and has...
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The Law, The Media… and Social Media: Bringing Balance to Campaigning
With the recent victory we had over Friends Life, it’s been a busy time talking about the campaign and thinking through more deeply what lessons can be learned from it. I’ve got a blog piece up over...
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Paying Attention, Not Glazing Over: The Power of Genuine Human Presence
In response to a piece extolling the possible virtues of new technology for precipitating an educational revolution, I wrote a piece on HuffPost Tech reflecting on my own practice as a teacher, and...
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Defeating Terror, Overcoming Fundamentalism: Life ‘After Magic’
In the wake of the horrific attack in Woolwich last week there is an urge to find ways to understand. I’ve tried to take some time in doing so… Some have turned to history, some to religious texts,...
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Mutiny at TED – Put Down Your iPads and Strap on Your Eye Patches!
Was a HUGE privilege to be invited to speak at TEDx Exeter in April this year. I was given 12 minutes to speak on piracy, so decided to take one aspect of Mutiny! and look at how pirates work to...
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Playing Pirate with the Web | Privacy, Privatisation and Militarisation
With the recent furore over The Guardian and Washington Post’s revelations about PRISM, and the apparent willingness of pretty much every large tech company to give the US government direct access to...
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iOS 7 | Robot Cockroaches | Prism
THIS IS YOU Sometimes a group of news stories come out that make you think that perhaps there is some divinely comic dark force behind everything. God, or The Bilderberg Group. Or Prehistoric Lizards....
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After Magic
A friend has been reading After Magic recently, and while chatting on the phone to them I picked up a copy again and turned to the section they were on… then ended up re-reading it myself! It was...
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‘Dervish At The Door’| Fertilising Debate
Dervish At The Door A dervish knocked at a house to ask for a piece of dry bread, or moist, it didn’t matter. “This is not a bakery,” said the owner. “Might you have a bit of gristle then?” “Does this...
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Inform vs Transform – Limits of Online Discourse
Been thinking about the post I wrote yesterday, and wanted to respond properly with a post rather than a comment. Actually, with a question, I think, which is this: Have you ever had your viewpoint...
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Five Verses on Fatherhood
A new poem for Father’s Day. Da. Da A-Ba you our first attempts at speech you our desire to reach up in words and in words speak worlds into being. Daddy? A question too often with no reply speaking...
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I don’t Believe in Ghosts, I Believe in Ghosts
I’ve been really enjoying The Returned – a French thriller currently airing in the UK on Sunday evenings. (Watch the latest episode here.) It concerns the (apparent) return of some young people to a...
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Man of Steel (Not God of Krypton) – A Radical Review
I saw Man of Steel last night, and, as a big ‘superhero’ film thought I’d post some reflections on it in the light of After Magic, which deals with the superhero archetypes seen in the recent Batman...
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New Poem: Blue
Blue The far sky the deep night the deep ocean deep throat the sound of sadness the colour of elsewhere the damned hue within that will not out. (c) KB 2013 Radiolab on lack of blue in any ancient...
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Religion: No Longer The Dope
There was a ‘spending review’ here in the UK yesterday at which the Chancellor Jeffrey George Osborne announced even more financial austerity over the next few years. At the same time, it was...
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e-Edition of The Complex Christ / Signs of Emergence
Happy to announce that there is now a Kindle version of my first book The Complex Christ - released in the US as Signs of Emergence. An iBookstore / ePub format version will be available soon too....
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Edward Snowden: Modern-Day Pirate?
Over the past 48 hours the number of countries saying ‘no’ to Edward Snowden’s application for asylum has grown rapidly. From Austria to Brazil, Finland to Spain, it seems that representatives from...
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