“What we often forget in the daily drumbeat of abuses by the dominant tech companies is our complicity in these abuses, and in the fundamental and unsettling ways the internet has changed every one of us.”
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights enters its seventieth anniversary, Dave Eggers, in the 2018 PEN H. G. Wells lecture, argues that urgent amendments are needed to mitigate the corrosive effects of technology on the societal and the personal. You can read an edited extract from the lecture on the TLS website.
This is a recording of an event that took place on December 16, 2018, at the Bridge Theatre, London.
Gregory Norminton, an interview
The 'real' Jane Eyre
Having a nice day
Language lolz
Was Jesus a Buddhist? Well, no...
The Problem We All Still Live With
Highlights from 2017
Arts of the Year 2017
Darwin: good, bad, ugly
Critical women
Dancing with Anthony Powell
BONUS: Geoff Dyer on Geoff Dyer
Can Utopia survive 2017?
The best books of 2017
A woman's 'Odyssey'
A brand-new London theatre
Kathy Acker's guts
Matthew Arnold's good-bad poetry
Valeria Luiselli on the US immigration crisis
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