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Red Moon, Red Earth: the radical science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson

March 6, 2020January 5, 2019 by Justin Reynolds

An essay for New Socialist on the political science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson, with a focus on his most recent novel Red Moon.

Categories Design, Economics, Featured, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Science Fiction, Technology
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Designing the future: a review of Economic Science Fictions

May 27, 2018 by Justin Reynolds

A little over a century ago, there was an expectation that the future was ours to map and manage. An excerpt from a review for New Socialist of Economic Science Fictions, edited by Wiliam Davies.

Categories Economics, Film, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Science Fiction, Technology

A future Solar System economy: thoughts on Michio Kaku’s The Future of Humanity

April 23, 2018 by Justin Reynolds

We seem to be entering a new golden age of space exploration but with so many national and commercial players its hard to know what to believe. I take a long look at The Future of Humanity, a new book by Michio Kaku that offers valuable insight into the likely infrastructure of a future space economy.

Categories Philosophy, Science Fiction, Technology

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

February 17, 2018January 29, 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

Automating virtue: China’s Social Credit System and the technology of trust

December 17, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

An article for The Norwich Radical exploring China’s design for enforcing ‘trustworthiness’: the Social Credit System.

Categories Philosophy, Politics, Technology

Love and loss, then and now: reading Ovid’s poetry of exile

December 4, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

The 2000th anniversary of the Roman poet Ovid’s death, far from home on the shores of the Black Sea, prompted some thoughts on the condition of exile, as experienced then and now.

Categories Art, Literature, Philosophy, Politics

Communism, Confucius and confusion: China’s turn to the sages

November 22, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

An article for The Norwich Radical discussing Communist China’s complex relationship with the legacy of the old sage Confucius.

Categories Philosophy, Politics
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This blog archives work by essayist and business writer Justin Reynolds from 2014 to early 2020, when I wrote  about technology, politics, business, economics, design and culture. Words for CityMetric, openDemocracy, The Calvert Journal, The New European, Social Europe, The Norwich Radical and New Socialist. More »

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  • ‘A Party with Socialists in It’: a review of a new history of the Labour Party May 6, 2018

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