
The Unbearable Reductionism of a Binary World
There’s no escaping binaries these days. Every conceivable detail of modern life seems to be reduced to digital 1s and 0s. As computing technology encroaches
There’s no escaping binaries these days. Every conceivable detail of modern life seems to be reduced to digital 1s and 0s. As computing technology encroaches
I have stood at the very spot where Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot by Gavrilo Princip 100 years ago. And the
Without a doubt, the greatest privilege of working for Langham Partnership is the opportunity to make friends all over the place, especially when one returns
There is a clear counter-argument for every point I want to make here. In fact, I sort of agree with every counter-argument myself. But I
I don’t cry in movies. Sometimes I’d quite like to. But that’s a different story. I just don’t. Usually. But one of the greatest films of
As a bit of change for the last night of the Bosnia conference here, I gave my seminar on U2. And as I was doing
This rather unprepossessing, pock-marked (i.e. bullet-riddled) house was Sarajevo’s lifeline during the 4 year siege in the mid-9os. I posted about that siege the last
One edition of this book (more recent than the 1997 edition that I had pictured here) begins with a preface by someone who suggests (apparently)
Having painted something of an amateurish potted 20th Century history of Sarajevo, here is one story that gave me great hope. Last week, I was
I fell in love with Sarajevo last week. But this was no rosy-tinted romance, no naïve foreigner’s passion. Although, it’s true – being a Balkans
Well, there seems to have been rather a snow-theme in recent posts. But have had the joy of a few days in Sarajevo (again for