AI can’t escape its past. Not the hype-cycle that keeps helping it evade regulators. Nor the roots of its computing in colonialism and worker control
‘He is always there to listen’: friendships between young men are more than just beers and banter
“What does it mean to be a father when, generationally, the men in their community have been taken away?” Sol Guy and Sabra Williams’ prison transformations
Alternative Editorial: Is There War On Planet A?
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, FEMININE, MASCULINE, PLANET Apat kaneUkraine, war, conflict transformaton, war reporting, psychotherapy, sociopsychotherapy, Johan Galtung, Planet A
"Our Godself, who art in heaven..." If the Church of England finds a non-masculine way to speak of its supreme deity, what else will change?
Alternative Editorial: Burn Out Is A Function Of The System We Are In
In our age of authenticity, spirituality takes centre stage on Stormzy's new album, This Is What I Mean
Patriarchy has been in retreat - but in places seems as strong as ever. Will we simply evolve out of it?
The Good Robot Podcast, and the DAIR Institute, are bringing femme-and-diversity-power to the lads' world of AI
At the seat of the abortion crisis is women's body ownership - which is at the core of having "fully-fledged agency"
Alternative Editorial: Where the Dark Meets the Light
"Love is chemical bribery, to make sure we stick around... and then it has a dark side". Anna Machin looks clear-sightedly at the "complex beast"
What Harry Styles wearing a dress on the cover of Vogue tells us about the growing fluidity of modern masculinity
"That's what freedom feels like, baby!" From Nowness, a rich archive of dance responses to our disconnected, demanding times
What the European Super League fiasco says about the future of football: deeply commercialised, totally globalised, and the moguls don't understand the fans
Happy Valentine's Day! Let's indulge ourselves with some conceptual, philosophical and playful short films about love
INDIVIDUAL, FEMININE, MASCULINE, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, TELL THE STORY, CREATE THE FEEL, ARTISTS, VIDEO/FILMpat kanelove, radical love, badiou, sartre, animations
Alternative Editorial: What Changes Behaviour?
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, FEMININE, MASCULINE, NEW ECONOMICSpat kanebehaviour, nudge, male, market, feminisation, protests
Alternative Editorial: Authority On Trial
“The living pulse of civilisation resides in what at first glance seems small, domestic or mundane”: Graeber & Wengrow redefine human history
Sign up for our next Zoom discussion “The Elephant Meets...”, with California-based prison artivist, Sabra Williams