Crimes of forgiveness
Forgiveness is good for the soul. Debt forgiveness is the juice that keeps the economy fresh. If all debts were…
Encryption and entropy
What is the physics of society? Its chemistry, its biology? We are beings who live through these material stuffs. Biochemistry…
Software for the gravid researcher
Everyone develops their own set of software tools over time. There are lots of handy specialist software programmes out there….
Is it a university building or an unethical experiment in social psychology? Why not both?
Visiting the art college and the Informatics school reminds me how uncreative most academic buildings and arrangements are. Many bear…
Stabilising security market abstractions
My study is illicit market ecosystems. The counterparts are global insecurity markets. These are growing markets in policing and public…
Reduce the problem space
In the early stages of the PhD, you work to ‘reduce the problem space’. Define the problem using the smallest…
How to decide what articles to read
Is someone likely to use it to detonate under me at a conference (‘but surely you know that Bodkins has…
My reading list for the next wee while
Inspired by a discussion of corporate fraud and wage theft I am aiming to incorporate this work into my Illicit…
Is it problematic, or just annoying?
Is it neoliberal, or just capitalist? Is it performative, or just displayed? Is it paradoxical, or just contradictory? Is it…
The many labours of research students
When you start out as a research student, what do you think your main area of work will be? It…
