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The accordionist’s son

Bernardo Atxaga is, I think, the foremost novelist writing in the Basque language, or at least the one who has been most translated into English. His book The Accordionist’s Son, first published in 2003, and published in English five years later, is—like his earlier book Obabakoak—set in the imaginary village of Obaba. This is found somewhere south of or southwest of San Sebastian, a half an hour…

#1960s Spain #Basque country #Bernardo Atxaga #fiction

Understanding systemic change by looking at the Grenfell Tower

#change #climate change #Gill Kernick #Grenfell #Three Horizons

Hanging out at the jailhouse

#‘Hangout’ pictures #Howard Hawks #Jason Guriel #John Wayne #Quentin Tarantino #Rio Bravo #westerns

Bob Dylan and ‘Duncan and Brady’: Cover Stories

#Bob Dylan #Martin Simpson #Paul Clayton #St Louis

‘The Fizz’ and transformative futures

#AI #Sustainability Accelerator #weak signals

Secrets under the surface

#Alfred Hitchcock #film noir #Joseph Cotten #Teresa Wright #The Third Man

Wilder’s tale of occupied Berlin

#Berlin #Billy Wilder #comedy #Jean Arthur #John Lund #Marlene Dietrich

Culture, change, and ‘structures of feeling’ as signals

#emerging issues #Graham Molitor #Raymond Williams #S-curves #structures of feeling

What kind of business is the AI business?

#AI #business models #Dan Davies #data centres #Ed Zitron

Hobson’s Choice

#Brenda de Banzie #British film #Charles Laughton #David Lean #John Mills

AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing

#AI #Carlota Perez #Nicolas Colin

Britain’s political eruption

One of the mysteries of the current British Labour government has been its obsession with the party group known as Blue Labour, which espouses a form of social democracy that marries social conservatism with progressive economic policies. This isn’t just a parochial issue: it seems to be a feature of many struggling social democratic parties at the moment. (Andy Warhol, Vesuvius. Photo: Andrew…