Against the Algorithm

John Berger at 100

Peter Jukes celebrates the centenary of the birth of John Berger – one of the figures who inspires Byline Times’ analysis on the ideas we think with

For many of my Boomer generation, the artist, broadcaster, novelist, and critic John Berger was as essential a guide to our postwar 60s consumer society as George Orwell had been to the decline of the British Empire and the rise of fascism for the generation before.

They had many things in common.