It’s a review of 2001: A Space Odyssey from my Hollywood history newsletter GROSS, but it’s also an essay about working in space and a comparison with Director Bong’s Mickey 17.| bowblog.com
It’s a review of 2001: A Space Odyssey from my Hollywood history newsletter GROSS, but it’s also an essay about working in space and a comparison with Director Bong’s Mickey 17.| Bowblog
The atomic theory in Kilburn| bowblog.com
The atomic theory in Kilburn| Bowblog
I’m having a bit of a clear-out. Here are some of the art books I’ve accumulated over the years. All priced to sell (I don’t think you’ll find any of them for less online) and all available for immediate purchase on eBay. Histoire(s) du Cinema – Jean-Luc Godard Four hardback volumes and five CDs in… Continue reading Art book sale!| Bowblog
I ran into Raman and his gorgeous car on my commute. Raman first met the Hillman Hunter in Iran when he was a kid. Not this one – it would have had a Paykan label on it. That was the brand u…| Bowblog
All these novels have fewer than 200 pages, some of them fewer than 100. Together they make up the first couple of batches of books in my family’s Small Book Club, which is designed to get u…| Bowblog
Public ownership as end-of-life care. This is a quick note in response to the head-spinning fact that, apparently, both ends of the British Parliamentary political spectrum are now positively disposed to the idea of nationalising British Steel. I mean everyone’s into. Nigel Farage’s into it. Keir Starmer’s into it. But, let’s be clear, it’s a… Continue reading Nationalise what?| bowblog.com
All these thoughts I keep having about AI, I’m going to put them here… The models are unpredictable, in fascinating and stimulating ways but, to state the obvious, they cannot be other than capitalist in nature. A socialist LLM, were one to exist, would have to have been trained on another world, in another context… Continue reading Paragraphs about AI| Bowblog
The liberal world order, the whole post-war, rules-based thing that we treasured. That’s obviously over. It’s not just what’s happening now, and not just in theatres of war: the symptoms of the end of the progressive or liberal period are everywhere – and we learn that it was really all bullshit anyway. I argue about… Continue reading What have we learnt?| Bowblog
Come, love of country, fill my heart… I do love Britain. I guess I love England more. London most of all. I hope that in my life I’ve honoured the place I live and not disgraced it or undermined it (I support England and GB in sporting events – I fly a little flag on… Continue reading When will I become patriotic?| Bowblog
I wrote this article for Mark Ellen at The Word fourteen years ago (I hope he won’t mind my putting it up here). The events described – my stupid progress through the stupid dotcom boom (and the stupid crash that followed it) already felt like a long time ago then… What you ought to do… Continue reading On the beach after the gold rush – annotated| bowblog.com