Month: October 2020

Crimes of forgiveness

Forgiveness is good for the soul. Debt forgiveness is the juice that keeps the economy fresh. If all debts were honoured then capitalism would close up shop. Debt…

Encryption and entropy

What is the physics of society? Its chemistry, its biology? We are beings who live through these material stuffs. Biochemistry matters for mind and behaviour. For example, the…

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. Look out for those that have a strong…

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 a striking resemblance to Dunder Mifflin, a monastery…

Stabilising security market abstractions

My study is illicit market ecosystems. The counterparts are global insecurity markets. These are growing markets in policing and public order solutions. They extend from gear – riot…

Reduce the problem space

In the early stages of the PhD, you work to ‘reduce the problem space’. Define the problem using the smallest number of steps, variables or data points. This…

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 covered your very argument in her seminal work…

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 Markets course: Smith D (2013) The “Hyper-meritocracy” –…

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 dichotomous, or just separate? Is it criminalised, or…

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 might be data collection, the many challenges of…

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