James: The artist's view
'Complexity' from an artistic perspective I see complexity in nature as an artist, as a ubiquitous range of forms. They manifest...
The commonsense of the near future
It is a truism that most of us carry out our everyday commonsense tasks with very little conscious effort or analysis. Indeed to find...
Two cultures and the consumers of complexity
Are we still two cultures? In 1959, the scientist and author CP Snow gave a lecture entitled ‘Two Cultures’. CP Snow’s speech was about...
Society and a digital 'New Wild'
The aim of a philosophy of the 'New Wild' is also to investigate the idea of human complexity and use it to discuss our relation to...
Design at the interface of 'Complexity'
This article is about technological complexity and designers' approaches for adapting it to us, or adapting us to technology. Thinking...
The 'New Wild' and the 'sublime' in western philosophy
The concept of the 'New Wild' also hints at the notion of the 'sublime' which for much of the history of Western thought has been closely...