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Zaha Hadid’s radical geometries

September 18, 2017April 14, 2016 by Justin Reynolds

Some time in the mid-1970s a student came to London from Iraq with a vision of how architecture could remake the world. Remarkably – and eventually – she succeeded.

Categories Architecture, Art, Design, Featured, Technology

Inventing the Future: towards the automated economy

September 18, 2017December 21, 2015 by Justin Reynolds

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams imagines a ‘post-work economy’ in a world beyond neoliberalism.

Categories Economics, Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Reviews, Technology
Astronaut's gloves

A visit to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida

September 1, 2017May 31, 2015 by Justin Reynolds

I’ve taken some time to get round to it, but here, finally, are some photos of a memorable trip to the Kennedy Space Center during my holiday in Florida last month.

Categories Design, Photography, Technology
Ice floes viewed from plane window

General Election 2015: a view from the window seat

September 18, 2017April 15, 2015 by Justin Reynolds

A view of the 2015 General Election from a plane window, with the blue haze shimmering over the tip of Greenland: I discuss some important issues that aren’t being talked about.

Categories Economics, Politics, Technology

Introducing Sceptical Scot

September 1, 2017March 18, 2015 by Justin Reynolds

Over the past few weeks I’ve been glad to help with the development of a new current affairs website, Sceptical Scot, which launched this week. The site hopes to bring more light than heat to the ongoing, intense discussion over the future of Scotland in the wake of last year’s referendum.

Categories Architecture, Art, Design, Economics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Technology

10 books for 2015

September 1, 2017January 3, 2015 by Justin Reynolds

There will be many others I don’t yet know about. And I’m sure I will not read everything listed below. But here are 10 books to be published in 2015 I’m looking forward to, summarised in alphabetical order.

Categories Architecture, Economics, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Technology
Battle Beyond the Sun movie poster

Engineering utopia

September 1, 2017October 12, 2014 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
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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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  • Reconsidering climate change intervention: a review of Holly Jean Buck’s After Geoengineering February 20, 2020
  • Rewiring the machine June 4, 2019
  • Red Moon, Red Earth: the radical science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson January 5, 2019
  • Designing the future: a review of Economic Science Fictions May 27, 2018
  • ‘A Party with Socialists in It’: a review of a new history of the Labour Party May 6, 2018

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