The Latest Breaking News from Walter Benjamin

Rather than fearing the rise of generative AI, new technologies may allow creatives to define and express themselves in completely new ways.

Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote:

I much prefer the fun and mess of unvarnished childhood snaps, says philosopher and writer Tom Whyman

Xerography revolutionised the way we copy, print, and distribute textual material. It allowed for the quick and cheap reproduction of printed material, and enabled the emergence of a vibrant arts scene, improved access to educational material, and, perhaps most importantly, rendered copying an independent activity.

A beautiful grifter, a defiant prodigy and a political prisoner star in this month’s best books, which our critics describe variously as "utterly engaging", "beguiling" and "profound".

The artist and film-maker talks about Black cultural history, Tupac Shakur, the evolution of dub and his remarkable cinema essays with the Black Audio Film Collective

Progress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The winds that propel us forward also uproot and tear apart what we leave behind. The modern world is a world of progress and it leaves in its wake the ruins of the old world.