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Tats, trust and taking risks: Whole Glory one year on

One year after a group of people decided to put their body and trust in the hands of a total stranger, we delve into how these emotions…

6 min readDec 13, 2023

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Tats, trust and taking risks: Whole Glory one year on

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

We are turning into subscription slaves

Anyone concerned with the importance of liberty and autonomy ought to be alarmed because we are turning into subscription slaves.

5 min readDec 7, 2023

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We are turning into subscription slaves

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Trigger warnings: Don’t leave before I’ve had the chance to upset you

Lauren Rosewarne says the danger of trigger warnings is that they provide an audience an all too-easy opportunity to opt-out.

4 min readOct 26, 2023

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Faking It: AI must be deceptive

In order to combat deception in our digital future, we need AI to be as deceptive as we are. Toby Walsh writes.

5 min readSep 20, 2023

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Faking It: AI must be deceptive

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Inequality is led by corporations

Is the PcW tax scandal the tip of the corporate led inequality iceberg? Carl Rhodes writes.

5 min readJun 15, 2023

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Inequality is led by corporations

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Are you a lone wolf, or a sheeple?

Is our collective urge to conform being commodified? Writer Sarah Wilson uncovers the complex relationship between capitalism & conformity.

5 min readMay 30, 2023

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Are you a lone wolf, or a sheeple?

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Is ‘shame’ the key to a world without rape?

Typically, discussions of sexual violence are clouded with shame. Is our understanding of it the key to creating a world without rape?

5 min readApr 18, 2023

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Is ‘shame’ the key to a world without rape?

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Is it possible to bring the two halves of America back together?

How should we understand America’s paradox of decadence and decline? Philosopher Anna Goodman writes.

4 min readMar 7, 2023

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Is it possible to bring the two halves of America back together?

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

AI is not the real enemy of artists

AI is threatening to put artists out of work. But the greatest threat to art isn’t AI, it’s capitalism. And AI could be the remedy.

7 min readFeb 7, 2023

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AI is not the real enemy of artists

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Age of the machines: Do algorithms spell doom for humanity?

Can we resist the inevitable drift towards automation, surveillance and passivity? Nick Jarvis writes.

6 min readJan 9, 2023

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Age of the machines: Do algorithms spell doom for humanity?

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