It is Tuesday, time to #see power on my blog. Above is Tony Benn in 1961, in front of the mother of all parliaments, Westminster, the then undisputed seat of British political power. I have chosen this ...
Trevor Paglen Untitled (2010) – Reaper Drone in the Californian sky (that tiny dot just on the right of the frame) This week on “The nature of power in the 21st century”, I am pondering the question ...
Then: The above print shows President Theodore Roosevelt as a constable standing between Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa with a truncheon labeled The New Diplomacy (New York : Judge Company Publishers, 226 Fourth Avenue, ...
Welcome to cyber week! Did you know? Ninety percent of data that exists in the world today was created in the past two years. Who controls this data originating from our activities online? What is being ...
1980 Soviet anti-American propaganda poster, “Freedom – the American Way” After having kicked off this week on past and present influence techniques with a quote from the colourful Edward L. Bernays, famously Sigmund Freud’s nephew ...
It is computer algorithms that define which information reaches you via your social media, which makes them an incredibly powerful vector of influence. The above image illustrates just how strikingly different your view of the world ...
Hubert Robert (1733 – 1808) “La violation des caveaux des rois dans la basilique Saint-Denis, en Octobre 1793″ The painting above by Hubert Robert, one of the principal 18th-century French painters, famous for drawing Italian ruins conveys ...
via @arnocast Today, 11 December, International troll day to mock Daesh ...
Click here to inspect a timeline by the Washington Post showing, side by side, Islamist extremist propaganda and US State Department response. What a disaster. For our side, that is. ...
A convoy of Stryker and other armoured vehicles from the 3rd Squadron of the 2nd US Cavalry Regiment arrives in Vyškov, South Moravia, Czech Republic, in spring 2015 (Radek Mika, AFP) In an effort to visually and physically counter ...