"The lumbung interlokal and other forms of shaking the land."

>"Meta’s blocking of Canadian news is a direct response to Canada’s Online News Act, which mandates major tech firms pay local news organizations for using their media links. But the “link tax” furor underscores a deeper issue: media _...Read More_

>"The royalist establishment is denying the will of the people once again."

"Depending on how you look at it, generative AI is either astonishingly powerful or totally pointless."

"Governments in the digital age face difficult choices in negotiating with powerful technology companies and citizens without losing legitimacy or succumbing to unforeseen threats."

"Since starting out in 1970 as a student at the renowned art school Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Thomas Ruff (b. 1958) continued to gain momentum. Whitechapel Gallery, London, showcases the artist’s innovative life work in an _...Read More_

"This putative shift to a “narrative war” over Taiwan is pivotal not only because of the implications for geopolitical conflict, but with respect to intergenerational tensions within China itself."

>"With a constant push beyond basic rules of compliance, is the fashion industry ready for whatever the future holds? The fashion industry has always been dynamic and ever-evolving, with trends influencing what each season looks like. In _...Read More_

"Gamepieces at AGSA, Adelaide melds poetry with politics, brutality with moments of profound beauty, to stage the theatre of history on the female body"

"Mao’s poem ‘Swimming’ is a poetic evocation of the glorious changes that were intended to transform the Chinese nation through the collectivization of agriculture and accelerated industrial production. Written before the suppression of the _...Read More_

"A multiple-choice list that speculates on our present: what has become reality? And where was the utopia that was wrong?"

"Over time, the prominence of Christian socialism waned, both inside and outside the Left. After 1917, the prestige of Bolshevism solidified the position within the Left of a militantly atheistic form of Marxism. Meanwhile, with the advent _...Read More_

>"To briefly set the scene, the fourth century was a complex period for Christianity. It moved from being a persecuted sect to _...Read More_