This was the first in a series of events at the Bishopsgate Institute curated by Little Atoms under the theme Whose Mind is it Anyway? The modernist architecture espoused by communism explicitly promoted the ethos of collective living. It could also be argued that shopping centres encourage you to shop, parks persuade you to linger, local shops enhance […]
October 14, 2011
Misha Glenny is a distinguished journalist and historian. Misha’s latest book is DarkMarket: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You. As the Central Europe Correspondent first for the Guardian and then for the BBC, he chronicled the collapse of communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He won the Sony Gold Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting. The author […]
October 7, 2011
On this week’s show QI’s Director of Research John Mitchinson returns to Little Atoms to talk about Unbound, his exciting new crowd-funded publishing venture. Joining John is Keith Kahn-Harris. Keith is a sociologist, researcher, writer and music critic. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, an associate lecturer for the Open University and the convenor of New Jewish […]
October 24, 2011
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