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Crime, technology and society by Angus Bancroft

7 October 2020

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 just unlawful?

Is it totemic, or just symbolic?

Is it a practice, or just an activity?

Is it bounded, or just limited?

Is it a social construct, or just a creation?

Is it a moral panic, or just an upset?

Is it a structure, or just a pattern?

Do I fixate on the overuse of neoliberalism too much? Almost certainly.

Oct 7, 2020

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I'm a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh department of Sociology, studying illicit drug use, illicit markets and various shades of cyber crime. Email angus.bancroft@ed.ac.uk Tweet @angusbancroft

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Crime, technology and society by Angus Bancroft

Is it problematic, or just annoying?

Angus Bancroft

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Ethics of the interface and the right to risk – Self trust, self computing and disability

Chalkface to touchscreen: Convivial learning with Socrates

What we lose with ‘gender’

When nationalism, cybercrime, organized crime, geopolitics, and territory meet.

Liberal goods are good

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Is it problematic, or just annoying?

The many labours of research students

My reading list for the next wee while

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Posts by Angus Bancroft

Ethics of the interface and the right to risk – Self trust, self computing and disability

Chalkface to touchscreen: Convivial learning with Socrates

What we lose with ‘gender’

When nationalism, cybercrime, organized crime, geopolitics, and territory meet.

Liberal goods are good

Comments by Angus Bancroft

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