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‘Dervish At The Door’ | Fertilising Debate

Jun 13, 2013

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Philosophy, Theology

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 look like a butchershop?” “A little flour?” “Do you hear a grinding stone?” “Some…

After Magic

Jun 12, 2013

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in Books, News, Theology

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 good to do, having had a bit of distance from it for a while. I am…

iOS 7 | Robot Cockroaches | Prism

Jun 11, 2013

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in Apple, Current Affairs, News, Technology

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. In the last couple of days we’ve had a triad of such stories…and I refuse to believe that they are unrelated. Firstly, we’ve had…

Playing Pirate with the Web | Privacy, Privatisation and Militarisation

Jun 8, 2013

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Books, Current Affairs, Technology

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 its servers, I’ve been mulling on a great book that Barry Taylor recommended to me: Geert Lovink’s Networks Without A Cause. It’s perhaps…

Mutiny at TED – Put Down Your iPads and Strap on Your Eye Patches!

Jun 4, 2013

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in Economics, Environment, News, Resources

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 defend and enrich the commons. In preparing the talk it struck me that TED is actually…

Defeating Terror, Overcoming Fundamentalism: Life ‘After Magic’

May 28, 2013

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in Philosophy, Theology

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, but convinced that our best works of art can be taken seriously as comments on the human…

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