From a designer’s perspective, AI is like the new version of plastic - distorting everything, at great ecological cost
Hard Art says: “Everything today is about story, about attention, about making people feel something fully enough to do something about it"
An “integral journalism” would expose people to more complex information, healthier discourse, and inspiration for transformation
"Evil Does Not Exist" is a powerful Japanese eco-drama about one community’s fight against intrusive land development
Matthew Green wants a new media system - a journalism that can heal our collective trauma (and not make it worse)
Alternative Editorial: Springing Into Action
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The original sustainable architect, an evocation of time and tide, one year in a flower-farmer's life: A/V for Spring
Alternative Editorial: launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING
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Alternative Editorial: Let's Not Be Patient
Alternative Editorial: A Socio-Politics For Our Times
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After half-a-century, Cindy Sherman is still photographing herself, showing how media (and now AI) splinters our identity
Alternative Editorial: When Will The World Catch Up?
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The best music videos of last year take you higher, open up wormholes, create you from an embryo, and rap sublimely
Alternative Editorial: We Simply Can't Imagine
Roger Hallam creates his own media space and says "it's time for Revolution" on the climate
Ai Wei Wei on art's role as a "guardian" against the effects of AI. But it also means "weird video games, emotional chaos and sabotage chic"
Alternative Editorial: Be Careful What You Wish For
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Alternative Editorial: School ban on phones may stop a bigger evolution
“Talk like a human about climate change.” Good advice. But can humans be curious and vision-seeking, as well as loss-averse and fearful?
To be "stoic" is currently a big trend on TikTok. But stoicism is about more than "maintaining a steely and calm disposition, and never complaining"