I wrote this article in response to a request by Aleksandr Buzgalin to respond to his own article in Science and Society. This allowed me to develop the critical notion of ‘mental objects’. This [...]
Evaluating the 2012 London Olympics’. Presentation to conference of Beijing Sports University on ‘Thinking of Different Nations with a Philosophical view’, within the research [...]
In Mexico, I gave a talk on creative industries and mental objects. This post contains the main text of that talk, and an additional fragment from which the title of this post is taken; I don’t [...]
A short explanation of the GERG Data Project, written for IIPPE and posted on their blog. The purpose of the project is ‘to create a user-friendly database of world and country economic, [...]
This paper suggests the foundations for a theory of mental objects and their role in production, later developed fully in my debate with Buzgalin in Science and Society, and my contribution to [...]
Interview with the Mexican magazine ‘El Economista’ on the creative industries and their significance for economic growth.
The definitive version of this slideshow.
This paper was the fruit of a further collaboration between Hasan Bakhshi, Peter Higgs and myself in an attempt to examine the intersection between the creative industries and the ‘STEM’ [...]
The background to this joint UK-US symposium was the interest, in both countries, in establishing some kind of framework for measuring ‘cultural’ activities, production and consumption. In the US [...]
I was invited to address the American Association of Arts Educators’ conference on May 29th 2014, which was held in Montreal. I chose to focus on the achievements of the World Cities Culture [...]
