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City dreaming
White man got no dreaming Him go ’nother way White man him go different. Him got road belong himself.THESE...
The tale of two cities
IN JANUARY 2016 in the holiday atmosphere that envelops Melbourne – remember the Australian Open and Australia Day long weekend? –...
A new mother tongue
AS OXFORD ECONOMIST Kate Raworth so rightly puts it, economics is the ‘mother tongue’ of public policy – and it...
Facing the zeitgeist
WITH ONE BOLD move King Henry VIII could solve many problems. He could meet his conscience. After divorcing his...
Depending on the final yes
AL GORE, FORMER US vice president, Nobel laureate and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, has led the global...
De-Nazification and Blake’s illustration to Purgatory canto 9 (lines 64-101)
Snow is falling white-outover the Schloss and its collectionsof the dead. A small marble hand glistens in its case and...
Up in smoke
WE’RE TWELVE DAYS’ walk from the nearest road, on an island on the edge of the world. There’s no...
The great unmapping project of 2016
In the time before the map – IBunjil & Birrung meet the seaIN THE TIME before the bay, before the...
The city algorithm
This image is a computer-generated projection of a standard 2040 global city of eight million citizens. It is based on...
Triangulation
IRONBARKS, AS THEIR name suggests, are tough trees. Their outer covering is thick, rough and deeply furrowed. Dead bark...
This essay is good for my KPIs*
LAST DECEMBER, I was planning to write an essay on the politics of the imagination for this magazine. But...
Time travel
THE ABILITY TO travel through time in our minds, to inhabit re-created pasts and imagined futures, is arguably one...
