Glasgow, 2007. Inflatable statues bend and sway in the May sunlight in George Square, amid tents celebrating Swedish football. I stared at them; their movements seemed bizarre, as if retching, drunk, the elbow crease of escaping air resembling a stomach convulsing, heaving. Conversely, the arms waved as if in perpetual supplication, in a slavish dance [...]

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I’m in this short film for Google’s Zeitgeist event which is going to be held this weekend in London. You can spot me easily enough – I’m the one not talking about new media democracy.

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Blinking heck! I thought. There’s a young girl handing out food bars to people on the corner of High Holborn, London. She was with a young man who had a logo emblazoned plastic box on wheels and who like her was passing out dozens of freebie muesli bars.
Or were they muesli bars? Was I witnessing [...]

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