Kester Brewin

One of my favourite podcasts is Material World – a science review from the BBC. In a recent episode, Jaron Lanier discussed his recently published manifesto: You Are Not A Gadget. I’ve ordered it, but not read it yet, but was very much taken by one line of thought he introduced in the interview – [...]

Beaten Tracks On the sleepers between Forest Hill and Brockley broken rails are lain down, flanked by the tidy parallels of clean-humming steel tracks. They are tensile failures, pieces and fractures, all angles and rough edges, serving brittle punishment for going out of line and giving in when the wheels rolled their backs. © KB [...]