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Industrial tragedy
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Unmade in Britain: we’re becoming a zero-industrial society
The French sociologist Alain Touraine coined the term ‘post-industrial society’ in 1969. By the 1980s it had become shorthand for the kind of services-based, individualistic economies most major developed nations had created. Today, the UK is moving its economy beyond that. We are creating what might be called a ‘zero-industrial society’. Climate change targets, soaring
Unmade in Britain: we’re becoming a zero-industrial society
The French sociologist Alain Touraine coined the term ‘post-industrial society’ in 1969. By the 1980s it had become shorthand for the kind of services-based, individualistic economies most major developed nations had created. Today, the UK is moving its economy beyond that. We are creating what might be called a ‘zero-industrial society’. Climate change targets, soaring
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Like lying down in front of a bulldozer: the Jesus Lizard, at the Electric Ballroom, reviewed
From the magazineMany indie types from the 1980s and 1990s were secretly metal fans. But it’s not something they ever really wanted to admit to in public. They’d talk a good game about the Stooges and the Velvet Underground but back home – as was the case with Leeds’s goth overlord Andrew Eldritch, of the Sisters of
It’s no Citizen Kane: The Brutalist reviewed
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‘‘Death, War – meet Artificial Intelligence.’’
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