The scale of the west’s exploitation of Africa and Africans in the pursuit of economic power is laid bare in this painful, passionate retelling of Eurocentric historyThe way we think about history is entirely wrong, says Howard W French at the start of…
The one photograph that changed everything – in pictures
From Don McCullin to Alec Soth and Joy Gregory, photographers pick the image that cast a spell on them – and made them reconsider their own way of doing things Continue reading…
いくつもの未来を生成するために、都市はあらゆるプロトタイピングの場となる：WIRED CONFERENCE 2021レポート（DAY1）
都市という複雑系のなかで〈わたし〉 は〈みんな〉といかに「再生する未来」をたぐり寄せることができるのか──。「FUTURE:re-generative 未来を再生せよ！」を全体テーマに開催した「WIRED CONFERENCE 2021」。その第1日目は、行政からミラーワールド、コミュニティデザイン、建築、コモングラウンド、インクルーシヴデザインまで多様なキーワードへと枝分かれしながら「CITY」がもつ可能性に迫った。
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Sunday Comics: Very Thirsty
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more…
Guardian angel: we send a 21-year-old mega-fan to perform at the world’s largest Elvis festival
Aaron Arter enlivened lockdown – and raised thousands for charity – with his streetside renditions of the King’s hits. Now it is his turn to shineWhen 21-year-old Aaron Arter feels blue, he sings along to the King. When he is happy, he sings along to t…
20 years of the iPod: how it shuffled music and tech forever
In October 2001, the music industry was riven by piracy and had no idea how to solve it. Enter Steve Jobs, whose new device created a digital music market – and made Apple into a titanIn 2001, the record business was in freefall due to digital piracy, …
‘We planted a seed’: the Afghan artists who painted for freedom
The Taliban has whitewashed Kabul’s political murals – and those who created them have fled into exileNegina Azimi felt shock and fear like never before when she heard that Taliban fighters had entered Kabul on 15 August. As an outspoken female artist…
Reflections in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya: Hossein Fatemi’s best phone picture
‘The poverty I saw really shocked me, but also the people I saw were happy, they were friendly, they were sharing’The trip Hossein Fatemi made to Somalia in 2011, on assignment for an Iranian organisation, marked a turning point in his career. The New …
「テレビ」よ、わたしたちを驚かせてくれ：Podcast連載「WIRED/TIRED with Dos Monos」第4回、ゲストに上出遼平が登場！
Dos Monosメンバーの荘子it、TaiTanによるポッドキャスト連載の最新回を更新！ 世のなかの「ワクワクするもの／退屈するもの」について語らう本連載の第4回ゲストにテレビ東京のテレビディレクター・上出遼平を迎え、「テレビ」や「MV」、「食」をテーマに縦横無尽に語らった。去る9月7日から放映された上出とDos Monosによる未だ謎多き“実験的蓋番組”の裏話も語られる、濃厚な90分間をお聞き逃しなく。
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『DUNE/デューン 砂の惑星』でヴィルヌーヴは原作を見事に映像化した。しかし、これは始まりにすぎない：映画レヴュー
映画『DUNE/デューン 砂の惑星』は、原作であるフランク・ハーバートの小説の壮大な世界観をすべて網羅するかたちで見事に映像化した。しかし、2部作を完結させられるかどうかは未知数であり、その挑戦はまだ途上にある──。『WIRED』US版によるレヴュー。
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