Aperiogon – The Junction

Spatial and Temporal Capital

As the rate of return on capital increases at a faster rate than income, inequality increases. This leads to centralisation of wealth and comparative diminution in the financial power of the consumer. We are seeing this take place today, as small businesses are ripped off the high-street by multi-national corporations. As these corporations expand, they […]

by Freddie Stuart

Madness

People often use the word ‘mad’ or ‘crazy’ to denigrate an individual. This is most often done in defence of the status quo. You are often considered mad simply if you are abnormal. A mad person may be someone who threatens the comfort zone of others. Someone who makes the majority question a facet of […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

“We need a shift to a new system that will allow us to meet the basic needs of every human on the planet, that will live within planetary means, that will be fairer, and that will be focused as its key goal not on growth per se, but on maximising human well-being. History tells us […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Era of the Empath

Poppy Crum’s talk from April of this year discusses in 12 short minutes the possibilities inherent in a technology that can read and understand our ‘chemical signatures’; our biological tells. It is rare in life for humans to fully or efficiently convey their feelings and emotions to one another. Often because they may not understand […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Wealth of Nations [Theory]

In 1776 Scot Adam Smith composed what is perhaps the most famous economics manifesto ever created, The Wealth of Nations. In the eighth chapter of the first volume Smith outlines his belief that when a business owner makes more money than she/he requires, they will logically reinvest this money into their productive assets (capital), in […]

by Freddie Stuart

The little things

Today I had an encounter with Boris. I was sitting in the library attempting to work when Boris charged in – made a load of noise – and left again. He was in the worst of moods. As I would be if I’d left the wide open world to sit in a dusty European studies […]

by Freddie Stuart

Money is Time

I’ve always thought the phrase ‘time is money’ is a bit of a stupid one to be honest. Why would time be money? The common understanding seems to be that in the time that you have, you can make money, so don’t be wasting that time doing something else because you could be making money […]

by Freddie Stuart

The History of a Generation

“When the true history of our generation has been written . . . the tale will not be told in the terms of the tawdry and conflicting interests about which politicians quarrelled in the periods between the wars or of the small ambitions and the small achievements of which they thought. It will be written […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Montevideo Criteria

The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States was signed in Uruguay in 1933. Signed by 19 countries of North, South and Central America, the Convention proclaimed in ‘Article 1’ the qualifications required to posses the title of ‘nation-state’. The magnitude of the current immigration debate, the receding relevance of borders in the era […]

by Freddie Stuart

Keys Under Doormats

“The Internet was designed to maximize simplicity of communication, not security of communication” – Johan Eriksson and Giampiero Giacomello In 2018 cyber-crime now accounts for more than 50% of crime in the United Kingdom, and was the second most reported crime worldwide in 2016 (Comparitech). A study at the University of Maryland found that there is […]