Horkan

A personal philosophy of art, identity and self-creation: life as both medium and artwork, with the individual simultaneously artist, material and subject.

The Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid are not a trilogy, but together they form an extraordinary narrative arc from the Trojan War to the legendary origins of Rome.

A provocation about what cleverness really means in an age of AI-mediated manipulation.

Writing about Charles Jordan MBE, preparing for his funeral, and just after taking stock of everything we have built around the West Midlands Cyber Hub, made me think about founders and stewardship.

Charles Jordan MBE, founder of Servol, has passed away.

Success, autistic burnout, the West Midlands Cyber Hub, and what comes next.

Institutional Convergence, Memetic Evolution and the New Architecture of Digital Governance.

Liquid modernity did not begin with the internet, but the post-LLM web is turning social fluidity into computational infrastructure.

This article introduces a practical operational extension to the UK FS SCD2 Bronze/Silver architecture.

Charlie Munger’s resilience was not built on optimism, confidence, or emotional detachment.

The West Midlands is increasingly positioning itself as a technologically advanced industrial economy shaped by AI, digitisation and interconnected operational systems.

The 2026 DSIT Cyber Security Sectoral Analysis reveals more than continued growth in the UK cyber sector.

A short overview of some of the strongest articles currently on Psyber Inc, exploring cyberpsychology, organisational resilience, recoverability, human factors, and post-breach adaptation.

A reflection on a uniquely busy West Midlands cyber and technology day spanning the Tech Transformation Summit, BCU Innovation Fest and the SWBH NHS Charity Quiz Night.

A former Atlassian engineer’s retrospective on building a global Envoy-based edge platform reveals something much deeper than “load balancing.”

An exploration of how modern internet systems optimise for communication, visibility, and behavioural flow while increasingly undermining the structural conditions required for cumulative public cognition.

As the visible web fragments, conversations destabilise into flow, and platforms increasingly optimise for extraction, a quieter transition has been happening beneath it all.

As the blogosphere fades and platforms like Google become increasingly closed, conversation has migrated into private digital spaces.

Guardian gets it wrong again: the real story isn’t “creator journalism”, it’s Google cutting its own throat.

The blogosphere isn’t dead; it’s been unbundled.