Tech Terror Crackdown: Moral or Political Problem?
Boris “oh what a fun haircut I’ve got” Johnson has attacked technology firms describing the fact that they profit from advertising revenue next to extremist […]
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Review: Jason Bourne (2016)
Jesus Christ, Jason Bourne is a terrible film. I’ll admit I didn’t want to go in the first place, so I wasn’t exactly in a […]
Whose Side is Technology On?
This is a post I forgot to publish a few months ago. Please pretend that I could be bothered to update references to the 2015 […]
Pirates are Collaborators
My friend informed me of a website called sci-hub.io, a pirating website that gets past the paywalls of closed access journal websites. When he sent […]
Belated Review – The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Taking a much needed break from the Labour Leadership election, I want to speak about a film I recently rewatched for the first time in […]
Robocop 2014: Freedom vs Technology
The Robocop reboot from earlier this year gave me faith that sci-fi isn’t dead. I expected a moody Nolan-esque remake, similar to the 2012 Dredd, that would […]
Freedom out of Control: Heidegger on Freedom and the Will
The following is a paper I gave at an internal university conference a few weeks ago. Speaking broadly, it is an attempt to convey my […]
The Need for Control or the Problem of Technology
This is a blog post about two ICT related issues that have bothered me slightly over the past few months: over-user-friendliness and internet privacy. Concerning […]
Are New Media New?
This post can be considered the sequel to an earlier post inspired by a conference held at MMU about Digital Transformation. The basic issue, I […]
Are Digital Transformations Transformations?
So, I went to this conference called “Digital Transformers”, more info is here. Now, my reasons for attending this conference were entirely ulterior. That is, […]