E2: Exploring Play/Creativity, Radical Tech & Power
Pat KaneE2 means “Second Enlightenment”. Transformative creativity, radical innovation and generative activism - celebrated, proposed and developed here. Cosmo-Scottish.
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The Superplay Report #13: "Natural friction" is a challenge to AI, whether it's music or maths
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What do I mean by ‘superplay’? It’s an element of our current condition—where our natural capacities for envisioning and rehearsing (that is, play) escape their sandbox, and quickly become consequential i...
PK in The National: Guga hunt is brutal but we should not denigrate the history behind it
This is an open-access version of my weekly column in The National, published Saturday, 1st August, 2026
Update: Nature Scot’s board decided on Monday 3rd August not to grant a license to the Men of Ness to hunt the Guga (young gannets) on...
PK in The National: Would Mackintosh want us to perfectly restore Glasgow School of Art?
The Mackintosh Building after the first 2014 fire. From Wikimedia
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This is an open-access version of my weekly column in The National, published Saturday, 25th July 2026
WHAT to do with the burnt-out shell of the Mackintosh...
PK in The National: If UK bans teenagers from social media for safety, why not ban men?
Photo by Rui Silvestre on Unsplash
This is an open-access version of my weekly column in The National, published Saturday, 18th July 2026
AS the world darkens, we chase our kids into the night.
The latest step on the UK path to a social...
PK in The National: What Count Binface tells us about winning Scottish independence
Count Binface (Wikimedia)
This is an open-access version of my weekly column in The National, published Saturday, 11th July 2026
COULD you wish for a better summer companion? Never mind your arts and music festivals, or teeming contempora...
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