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Whitechapel Gallery: Documents of Contemporary Art: The Magazine and Science Fiction
Art theory texts.

Signs from the Future | Columbia University Press
We are constantly being warned, but we seldom heed warnings. Cautioned about authoritarian leaders, climate change, technological dystopias, or other catastr... | CUP

Ballard is my native culture. I will return to this.

The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan review – an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard
The biographer’s terminal illness and death is woven into this original and moving account of Ballard and his work

Is Kenan Malik still the best columnist in Britain? Probably.

Fifty years on, David Edgar’s vision about the far right ...
The extreme views of neo-Nazis in the playwright’s 1976 drama Destiny have since moved into the mainstream

Better late than never:

To be human is to live with friction. That’s something AI boosters will never understand | Alexander Hurst
We’re being sold a world where there’s no room for reflection or spontaneity. This is the Black Mirror stage of capitalism, says Alexander Hurst, who writes for Guardian Europe from Paris

Not even wrong:

Minister James Lawless: I used AI to help write this article – all Irish workers should have the skills and confidence to use these tools
Ireland stands at a decisive moment, one that will shape our jobs, our economy and the opportunities available to the next generation.