Month: October 2020
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
