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Art and culture
Cultural practice under pressure from the systems around it. Briefs on art, cinema, music, games and the institutions that keep or lose them.
Building is not the same as proving
SpudCell can divide, according to Professor Dave Explains’ episode description, but the programme still asks whether the synthetic cell is alive.
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Who controls the cultural frame
TIME’s location report introduces Alec Guinness as “black of face” and wearing a floral-print dress, then gives him the line “Excuse my skirt.” In this supplied fragment, racial i…
Convenience sets the starting point
Chosic promises a playlist built from a song the listener likes, delivered in seconds.
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Ownership is not cultural continuity
Amazon now gets to decide who plays Bond and how the series runs, according to The Global Story’s description.
Who can contest the record
South Africa’s apartheid state charged Nelson Mandela with offences including treason, incitement and sabotage, placing political resistance inside proceedings controlled by the s…
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