Richard King

Sep 9, 2024 | angrybearblog.com | Richard King |Bill Haskell

Sailing Alone by Richard J. KingI read this 2023 book by Richard J. King on the recommendation of LS. It's all about those sailors who take to the sea alone, with only wind (or muscle power). It's about the mental and physical challenges, and how technology and society have added or (mostly) subtracted from them. I thought the book was insightful.

Jul 17, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Richard King |Arts Highlights

For those of us who would like to see a revival of the ‘techno-critical’ tradition in public debate (the tradition of Marshall McLuhan, Jacques Ellul, Neil Postman, and Langdon Winner, inter many alia), it is a cause of some irritation that the hegemonic view of technology remains the instrumental one. Here, technology is deemed to be neutral, in a way that precludes any serious analysis of its constitutive role in human affairs.

Jun 12, 2024 | irglobal.com | Richard King

For our final post on this topic of the top 100 European independent firms, our first stop is the Iberian peninsula. As we’ve said before, the Spanish firms are the true European heavyweights. And they tend to have extensive international networks of offices to match. They continue the trend of tending to follow established historic national trade flows, with offices in Latin America (Garrigues, Cuatracasas and Uria Menendez).

Jun 4, 2024 | slman.com | Richard King

/ 05-06-2024 Photography HAHN NEBINGER ZABULON ABACA/SHUTTERSTOCK THE THRILLER: Presumed Innocent Presumed Innocent is an eight-part limited series starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Negga. From TV masterminds David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams, it’s based on abestselling novel of the same name by Scott Turow. The series takes viewers on a journey through a horrific murder that upends the Chicago prosecuting attorney's office when one of its own is suspected of a crime.

May 31, 2024 | lithub.com | Richard King

One day early in my trans-Atlantic crossing I was leaning over the stern to clear some seaweed off the self-steering gear with a boat hook when I saw a large dorsal fin speeding up to the stern. I hustled down below to the cabin. This was partly to get my camera, but I was also half-imagining that Jaws himself was going to leap out of the water into the cockpit and eat me up. I look at my photographs now and can barely see the fin. In retrospect, I don’t even know confidently that it was a shark.