Category Archive: Digital Culture

Amazon’s Assault on Intellectual Freedom

by Bryce Milligan There is an undeclared war going on in the United States that threatens the lynchpins of American intellectual freedom. In a statement worthy of Cassandra, Noah Davis wrote in Business… Read More

Martyn Bennett, 1971-2005

“Try and find those things that make us Scottish. They are not necessarily tartan, but are no less colourful. They are in the sound of the kick drum, the bass line, the distortion, the punk guitar, the break-beat. Try and see the old ways in new surroundings.”

Soundherd

This from Social Media Week Glasgow Crowdsourced Scottish Poetry Audiobook:

Why have the Greens Disappeared from the Independence Debate?

By Justin Kenrick Great post Clare – many thanks. It points to the liberating possibilities that accompany recognising what holds you down, and the creativity and responsibility that comes with recovering hope and… Read More

Scotland 3.0

Equality needs to be hard-coded into the new Scotland.

For a New Scottish Democracy

How we Democratise Scotland’s Future: Challenging the Conceit that ‘There is No Other Way’

Leaving Leaving, Left

Is it really enough to say ‘but we’d lose our place at the top table’ if what we do with that place at the top table is reduce worker’s rights and veto a Tobin Tax?

Braehead Big Brother

By Ewan Morrison Given that we live in an era in which, as one politician once claimed- ‘it’s your duty to shop’ and at which time that civic duty of consumption increasingly involves… Read More

New Organisational Forms

One thing that helped a lot was a smattering of people from Spain and Greece and Tunisia who had been doing this sort of thing more recently. They explained that the model that seemed to work was to take something that seemed to be public space, reclaim it, and build up an organization headquarters around that from which you can begin doing other things.

Nokta Animation

Is Ed a Robot?

Ed Miliband’s brave new dawn turned out to be a regurgitation of Blairite orthodoxies. But a more worrying issue about our Cicero Rouge is the fact that he appears to be a robot.

Program or Be Programmed

Douglas Rushkoff expounds on his new book “Program or Be Programmed’. Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, columnist,  graphic novelist and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early… Read More