10月13日から開催する「WIRED CONFERENCE 2021 FUTURE : re-generative 未来を再生せよ！」。その見どころを紹介する短期集中音声連載が今年もスタート！第1回となる今回は編集長の松島倫明が今年のテーマに込めた想いや各日程の見どころなどを解説している。
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Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile in ‘sensitive’ BBC drama
Alan Partridge star will take on ‘complex’ character of notorious paedophile in The ReckoningSteve Coogan will play Jimmy Savile in a forthcoming BBC drama series about how the high-profile presenter spent decades living a double life as one of the cou…
Spice Girl among stars to begin phone-hacking claims against Murdoch empire
Melanie Chisholm, Boyzone’s Shane Lynch and S Club 7’s Hannah Spearritt latest to allege voicemail interceptionA group of 1990s pop stars are among the latest individuals to launch phone-hacking cases against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, as the scand…
The Guardian view on contemplative silence: there’s a lot to be said for it | Editorial
English Heritage is trialling a daily hour of stillness and reflection at its monastic sites. It is a bold experiment that deserves to succeedIn The Cloud of Unknowing, one of the greatest works of Christian mysticism, the art of contemplation is espec…
「The Artful Escape」のサイケデリックな世界で始まる“自分探し”の旅路：ゲームレヴュー
サイケデリックな世界観のなか、ロックを愛する若者が天才ギタリストへと成長していくゲーム「The Artful Escape」がリリースされた。奇妙な宇宙人との出会いやジャムセッションを通じた幻想的な体験の数々は“自分探し”の旅路であり、驚くほど心に響くメッセージが散りばめられている──。『WIRED』US版によるレヴュー。
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‘My art is a protest’: disrupting ideas about black people in British rural areas
Madinah Farhannah Thompson’s art is informed by her experience as a black primary schoolchildGrowing up as one of the only black pupils at her primary school in Norwich, Madinah Farhannah Thompson says she felt isolated and that it affected her mental …
‘I’m angry, I’m raging’: how Raye took on her record label – and won
After Polydor refused to release her album, the rising pop star spoke out. Now, newly independent, she’s ready for a fresh startTowards the end of June, while waiting to be interviewed on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, Raye found herself desperately trying…
A happy baby on a train: Dina Alfasi’s best phone picture
‘That the young girl in the foreground was a soldier with a gun on her knee is an integral part of that moment’Dina Alfasi has often said that her favourite place to shoot is on the train. It’s not only a mobile studio with, as she puts it, great natur…
Amanda Gorman: ‘I wanted my words to re-sanctify the steps of the Capitol’
The youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history on Toni Morrison, the power of language and her debut children’s bookMy earliest reading memoryMy mom bought me a Hooked on Phonics reading kit when I was in early elementary school. I quite litera…
It’s No Time to Die: but is it time to revoke James Bond’s licence to kill?
In the 1960s, 007 was a glamorous antidote to postwar austerity, but now he’s more laughable than heroic. Can the Bond brand survive, post-Brexit?These blithering women,” said James Bond, “who thought they could do a man’s work? Why the hell couldn’t t…