There’s been much talk about the possibility of a progressive alliance between Labour and the Greens: but what substantive differences exist between socialists and greens?
An unexpected opportunity to see images from Ivan Leonidov’s City of the Sun series at The Design Museum’s Imagine Moscow exhibition.
In which I argue Blue Labour is part right about social democracy: social democracy is a form of communitarianism, but it is a communitarianism oriented to the future, not the past.
When brilliant Soviet cyberneticist Viktor Glushkov designed a blueprint for a computerised planning system, the Soviet Union looked on track to become web pioneers. In the end, however, there was to be no digital network.
Here are 10 books I particularly appreciated this year – though not necessarily published in 2016 – listed in alphabetical order.
Arrival fondly imagines a universal language that, once understood, facilitates spiritual awakening, a kind of Zen enlightenment that opens the way for a new era of peace.
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley explores the Soviet intelligentia’s fascination with the America of the early 20th century, a mythic land of technological wonders, vast mechanised industries, spectacular cityscapes and the startling new medium of cinema.