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Apr.22 | Living in a land of shifting light; technology and virtual insanity; can a urinal be art?
A review of Kārearea by Māmari Stephens | Neil Postman on what we need to know about technological change | Jon Haidt on social media and social…
Alex Penk
Apr 28
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Apr.22 | Living in a land of shifting light; technology and virtual insanity; can a urinal be art?
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Can a urinal be art?
Part XI of our travels through Roger Scruton’s “How to be a Conservative”
Alex Penk
Apr 28
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A land of shifting light
Review of Kārearea by Māmari Stephens
Alex Penk
Apr 18
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Do we use technology, or does technology use us?
Neil Postman’s “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change”
Alex Penk
Apr 8
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Mar.22 | Meat suits, productivity, social cohesion, and conservatism; also, sharing is caring
Piloting the meat suit | Productivity is too important for the Productivity Commission to neglect | We need to work at social cohesion | The truth in…
Alex Penk
Mar 21
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The truth in conservatism
Part X of our amble through Roger Scruton’s “How to be a Conservative”
Alex Penk
Mar 19
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We need to work at social cohesion
Social cohesion is an asset in New Zealand, but a fragile one.
Alex Penk
Mar 15
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Productivity is too important for the Productivity Commission to neglect
The Productivity Commission needs to give itself a fair chance to do its job
Alex Penk
Mar 8
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Piloting the meat suit
Digital technology isn't just reshaping information; it's reshaping our relationship to physical reality
Alex Penk
Feb 19
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Feb.22 | An announcement; self-inflicted colonisation; can social science save social media; internationalism
An announcement about A Place to Stand | Some of colonisation's critics enthusiastically import irrelevant movements | Deploying poetry to save social…
Alex Penk
Feb 14
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The truth in internationalism
Part IX of our gallop through “How to be a Conservative”
Alex Penk
Feb 13
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The irony of self-inflicted colonisation
Some of colonisation’s staunchest critics are the most enthusiastic importers of distorting issues and ideas.
Alex Penk
Feb 6
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