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Author: Peter Jukes
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The Digital Domain Is the Most Mortal of All
Social media and digital storage are radically changing our concept of time and consciousness of death, writes Peter Jukes
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Dark Forces Erupting Into View
Ever since Byline Times started seven years ago, we have aimed to connect the immediate with the long term; to show how breaking news is not just ‘the first draft of history’ but a telling symptom of deeper, underlying forces.
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Flukes, Strays, Shadows
Automation can’t compete with the material delight of chance encounter in storytelling, writes Peter Jukes
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Yes, Androids Do Dream of Electric Sheep
Peter Jukes explores how the hallucinations of AI reveal that machines can never match the power of the human unconscious
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Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and hard-right and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility?
Having been on Reform UK’s target list as a winnable seat, Andy Burnham’s new constituency is a microcosm of Brexit Britain and the failed legacies of Thatcher and Blair. Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu paid a visit ahead of its seminal by-election
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The Tyranny of Literacy: How Writing Only Scratches the Surface
Text has always been more a technology of control than true creativity, writes Peter Jukes
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Hedge Funds and Tech Bros: Reform UK James Orr’s Road to Damascus
How did Nigel Farage’s head of policy move from corporate law to political religiosity? Peter Jukes and Nafeez Ahmed report
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Editorial – Eventful Times
As Byline Times enters its eighth year of publication, the need for independent, reader-funded journalism has never been more stark. While both the established press and social media become more concentrated in the hands of a billionaire class, the morbid symptoms of their malfunction mount.
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Machine Yearning: From God to Aliens to Chatbots – The Metaphysics of Loneliness
For those of us old enough to remember the Apollo missions, the sight of Artemis II blasting off towards the Moon may have brought back something a bit more complicated than Space Age tristesse or déjà vu.
