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Charli XCX and postmodernism

Last week, I went to see Charli XCX perform the Brat tour. Both Charli and her support act, Shygirl, were excellent. The audience held onto…

Dec 5

Charli XCX and postmodernism

Dec 5

“Rivals” — a quick guide

A new TV adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper’s Rivals, for Disney+, has gone down extremely well with the critics and I finished watching the…

Oct 23

“Rivals” — a quick guide

Oct 23

Mid-career artistry

I picked up this month’s ArtReview last week. It’s easily the world’s greatest art magazine and this issue’s cover stars at Holly Herndon…

Oct 22

ArtReview magazine Vol 76 no 7

Oct 22

The AI infrastructure opportunities of Slough: a poem

There was an article in El Reg this morning entitled The role of Slough in AI infrastructure. Slough, for the uninitiated, is a town…

Oct 15

The AI infrastructure opportunities of Slough: a poem

Oct 15

Restarting The Computer Programme

In the early 1980s, the BBC made several series of programmes regarding what were called, at the time, microcomputers. They were…

Oct 14

Restarting The Computer Programme

Oct 14

This week’s mix: hip hop 1998–91

This week’s mix is bittersweet for me. At some stage I had to make a mix of hip hop tracks from 1988 to 1991, as it is a period of music…

May 15

May 15

What Alanis Morrissette can tell us about AI

I was reflecting on life’s ironies recently, thinking about the clouds that puncture the sunshine, and the toothache felt through the…

Apr 8

What Alanis Morrissette can tell us about AI

Apr 8

Pipemania: what René Magritte tells us about AI

You have probably seen this image before. La Trahison des Images, or “The tyranny of images”, was painted by French surrealist painter René…

Feb 25

Pipemania: what René Magritte tells us about AI

Feb 25

Uzbek Pepsi, and creative high-points in advertising

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 caused a geopolitical rupture of a scale not to be experienced again in our lifetime. This…

Jan 23

Uzbek Pepsi, and creative high-points in advertising

Jan 23

A 2023 retrospective, and some tasks for 2024

Jan 2

A 2023 retrospective, and some tasks for 2024

Jan 2

Paul Squires

Paul Squires

Founder @imperica @pereramedia / Strategist @ibminteractive / Chair @furtherfield. Digital, media, art, politics, environment, culture, ephemera.

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