In early 2021 I was about to start minting my work as NFT’s, then I changed my mind. Here’s why I didn’t, and why I created isnt.cc instead. The Age of “Mining”

In the closing minutes of his 2011 lecture ‘No Time’ at The University of Warwick’s Virtual Futures 2.0 conference the late Mark Fisher…

The term ‘better’ has become such an ambiguous declaration that it has now come to mean pretty much anything - from a little less bad (mostly), to a genuine commitment of working towards equality and utopia (rarely). As such we need to remain mindful of the every utterance of better. …

* and also Human-Centered Design Part 1. The Problem — “Hello User.” TLDR: Assigning a person the status of a user is an act of objectification and dehumanisation — by necessity.

Does The Future have a past? When and where did The Future start and how has it evolved? What can The Future’s past tell us about The Future’s present, and ultimately The Future’s own future? TLDR: The Future has a history. The concept of The Future* didn’t suddenly appear from…

An Argument for Fourth-Dimensional Thinking The below conversation between School of Critical Design co-founder Gemma Jones and critical designer Ted Hunt and was documented concurrently with the event Design with Time as part of the ReDesign Business talks series during London Design Festival 2020. …

The above video essay is a new commission by Nesta as part of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative — an ambitious new European Commission programme focused on creating a more inclusive, human-centric and resilient internet by 2025. Transcript: The web search engine is arguably one of the most iconic…

“Unless we design and implement alternative information structures which transcend and reconfigure the existing ones, other alternative systems and life styles will be no more than products of the existing process.” — “Editorial” from Radical Software, Berly Korot & Phyllis Gershuny, 1971 One of the prevailing narratives of technological progress…

“Unless we design and implement alternative information structures which transcend and reconfigure the existing ones, other alternative systems and life styles will be no more than products of the existing process.” — “Editorial” from Radical Software, Berly Korot & Phyllis Gershuny, 1971 One of the prevailing narratives of technological progress…