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A Scrap of Good Cheer

Mourning the Biosphere

The Consumer Revolution

A Google Architect Speaks for the Masses

The Meaning of Lady Gaga's Fingernail

London, Zombie Capital

How Images Remember

Food: It's Complicated

The Architecture of Babel

The New Ersatz

On the Giant Sphere in Las Vegas

How Brands Entered the Spirit World

Arendt on the World of Things

China Is Reinventing the Car

The Spaceship as Political Symbol

A Tour of the Archive

The Weird World of Cruise Ships

Alone with Machines

X and the Race for the Super-App

Fully Automated Desert Dystopia

Living in the Artificial World

The Poetry of the Plastic Skin

Nostalgia for the Concrete Age

Europe’s America Complex

The Age of the Enclosed Self

The Uberisation of Everything

Do You Want to Look like the One Percent?

Note to Readers

Farewell, Timber Utopia

How Apple Works

The Real AI Revolution

The Nietzschean Origins of Skyscrapers

The Anarchy of Raw Materials

The Beauty of Boundaries

The Society of the Balloon Dog

Untangling the 15-Minute City Mess

Meaning in a Materialistic Culture

Britain Can't Make It: Why We Mourn Manufacturing

Why You Don't Get the Buildings You Want

Tech's First War on Time and Space

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