Tag Archives: Cybernetics

Caught in the net. The New Statesman, 4 May 2009

Thursday 26 March 2009, day 66 of Barack Obama’s presidency, may be remembered as the moment at which his clean-living administration went to pot. The occasion was the launch of Obama’s online town hall, Open for Questions, designed to build … Continue reading →

Take two popular new stories, one a recent Hollywood thriller and the other the work of an underground London theatre company, and discuss.

Has anyone seen Duplicity? The film stars Clive Owen and Julia Roberts as two former spies who can’t help bumping into one other. The film jumps back and forth so much, the time frame is so scrambled, that it’s impossible … Continue reading →

Very kind review in The Globe and Mail by Don Tapscott, co-author of Wikinomics

Is Twitter making us twits? There’s no doubt that our time online changes us, but is it ultimately harmful? DON TAPSCOTT 30 May 2009 The Globe and Mail LOST IN CYBURBIA How Life on the Net Creates a Life of … Continue reading →

Will be giving a lecture at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Fri 19th June at 230pm, on “Storytelling in the cybernetic age”. With film clips, to keep everyone awake!

Read the Introduction to Cyburbia

here

Lovely review from Art Review’s May edition, by JJ Charlesworth

Cyburbia: The Dangerous Idea That’s Changing How We Live and Who We Are By James Harkin Little, Brown / Knopf Canada, £17.99 / $24.32 (hardcover) Right now, you’re probably too busy bidding on eBay, cruising Second Life, emailing on your … Continue reading →

Great review of Lost in Cyburbia in Canada’s National Post on Saturday

Even if they didn’t go for the title. Read it here

How The Geeks inherited the Earth. An essay which will appear in this week’s New Statesman.

  Thursday 26 March 2009, day 66 of Barack Obama’s presidency, may be remembered as the day that his clean-living administration went to pot. The occasion was the launch of Obama’s Online Town Hall, designed to build on the momentum … Continue reading →

Trapped in Cyburbia: A lovely review from Spiked-Online

By Jennie Bristow. Read it here

Lost In The Loop: Review from DNA Sunday, India, 5 April

Lost in the loop Malvika Tegta 826 words 5 April 2009 DNA Sunday English Copyright 2009. Diligent Media Corporation Ltd. Inhabitants of cyber space essentially conform to peer opinion and willingly become nodes of loose information, argues a new book … Continue reading →

Review: The Independent, 27 March. Invasion of the Cybermen

By the critic and author of The Play Ethic Pat Kane. Read it here.

The Ties That Don’t Bind: The problem with Facebook’s global village

A comment piece from today’s copy of The Guardian. Read it here.

Review: The Independent (UK), 7 March

An interesting review in Saturday’s Independent, by the author of The Play Ethic Pat Kane. Unlike some of the critics, Kane gets the jokes too. It’s not online yet, so here is is below. The Independent, 7 March 2009. Cyburbia: … Continue reading →

Article in The Register, 23 Feb. “War, Web 2.0 and the fail loop.”

From Hezbollah to Twitter, a critical look what being on a continuous electronic information loop does to organisations.  Read it here.

Cyburbia in The Daily Star (Lebanon): Israel was out of the loop in Lebanon.

A comment piece I’ve written for The Daily Star in Beirut, adapted from the book and published on friday here. It’s since been republished throughout the Middle East.

Contra Twitter: We all need to be in the loop.

The Times (London), Times 2 Cover Story, Wed 18 Feb.