Tag: Peter Levine

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“policing: force or service? actually, wrong question!” – a short #ar #video #essay

I was for a very brief time a co-opted parish councillor. This means no one real ever voted for me in an open election. Neither was I particularly effective at the role. I tried, but as a random man recently accused me of, whilst I was waiting minding my own business in a private space of public use, I CAN be trying. When I became … Continue reading “policing: force or service? actually, wrong question!” – a short #ar #video #essay

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a monologue or a dialogue – what gathers more insight? #surveillance #sousveillance #gooddemocracy

It’s a simple question. And I am sure for most people NOT of a dictatorial tradition, the answer is self-evident. So why do we broadcast and monologue SURVEILLANCE – ie community safety and security – so wilfully? In the aforementioned dictatorial tradition, surveillance is not about COMMUNITY safety and security: rather, it’s about the security and safety of the DICTATORS. This approach leaks – unconsciously … Continue reading a monologue or a dialogue – what gathers more insight? #surveillance #sousveillance #gooddemocracy

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“towards a REAL free-market economy and Good Democracy” – using #ar, #ai, and #cloud

… a journey in six parts Part the 1st: on being an arts-based tech researcher In always productive conversation the other day with the always generous (in all senses) Thomas Gorry of #liverpool #ai fame, #quanovo, he raised the issue of what I am: more precisely, how I saw myself. How everyone sees Thomas is how every good businessperson and human being would want to … Continue reading “towards a REAL free-market economy and Good Democracy” – using #ar, #ai, and #cloud

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the automagical dismantling of Good Democracy

Whilst at uni in 2017, at Liverpool John Moores University studying International Criminal Justice, I came across a writer and thinker called Colin Crouch. From one of his shorter papers (my bad always, and ¡dejadez!), I extracted a fabulous idea: it’s possible for the powerful to impact society as if the strongest of conspiracies was well underway, without a word ever needing to be said, … Continue reading the automagical dismantling of Good Democracy

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“reading between lines and principles”

I believe in doing good. I believe in doing things MOSTLY in those areas which most impact our democracy. In our modern world, right now, business affects democracy much more than politics ever did. In liberal discourse, whether neo- or otherwise, a Good Democracy – as per Peter Levine’s eternal tension between INCLUSIVENESS and EFFICIENCY – requires that the public sphere be fair and transparent, … Continue reading “reading between lines and principles”

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