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Corbo-Futurism: Towards Manifesto 2.0

September 18, 2017June 20, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

A fascinating paper published on the eve of the election offers insights into a rich seam of contemporary Labour thinking that informed significant aspects of For the Many, Not the Few, and that may find fuller expression in the next programme the party takes to the country.

Categories Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Technology

Shipwrecked on modernity: Mark Lilla’s radical reactionaries

September 1, 2017May 16, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

Mark Lilla’s collection of essays The Shipwrecked Mind asserts a classic liberal scepticism against both Golden Age and Futurist utopias.

Categories Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Reviews, Theology

Technology, transformation and tears: some philosophical differences between Labour and the Greens

September 18, 2017May 5, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

There’s been much talk about the possibility of a progressive alliance between Labour and the Greens: but what substantive differences exist between socialists and greens?

Categories Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Technology

Ivan Leonidov’s City of the Sun

September 1, 2017April 18, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

An unexpected opportunity to see images from Ivan Leonidov’s City of the Sun series at The Design Museum’s Imagine Moscow exhibition.

Categories Architecture, Art, Design, Philosophy, Reviews, Technology

Blue Labour, social democracy and modernity

September 18, 2017March 30, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

In which I argue Blue Labour is part right about social democracy: social democracy is a form of communitarianism, but it is a communitarianism oriented to the future, not the past.

Categories Economics, Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Technology, Theology

The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher – a review

September 1, 2017March 9, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

Mark Fisher’s latest – and tragically – final book The Weird and the Eerie explores encounters with the outside and the unknown in 20th and 21st century film, music and literature.

Categories Film, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Reviews, Science Fiction, Theology

David Bowie and ‘god’

September 18, 2017January 12, 2017 by Justin Reynolds

Why should Bowie’s music, so often abstract, glacial, detached, obscure and mockingly ironic, hold such a powerful emotional appeal for so many?

Categories Music, Philosophy, Theology
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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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