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Comments on Terry Eagleton's "Base and Superstructure Revisited"
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) -
The Commodification of Knowledge Exchange: Governing the Circulation of Biological Data.
(Pittsburgh University Press, 2010) -
Consumerism as Folk Religion?
(N/A, 2014)"I will argue that consumerism can be understood as a contemporary folk religion as it shares a number of traits with most religions. In this talk I will focus on two: the thematic of transcendence and the dynamics of ... -
Consuming the campesino - Fair trade marketing between recognition and romantic commodification
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008)This paper aims to reconstruct the everyday moral plausibility of fair trade consumerism by linking it back to an analysis of the moral grammar of capitalist consumer culture and understanding it as both an actualization ... -
Continuities of Culture in the Cosmopolitan City: Accessing London/Turkish Spiritualities in Commercial Cultures through Accidental Clues
(N/A, 2013-07)In this paper I will present preliminaries for a study on the intricacies of London/Turkish life, developing from material clues gathered on a single day of preliminary ethnographic research on Kingsland Road and Stoke ... -
A convention beyond the Convention: stigma, humanitarian standards and the Oslo Process
(Landmine Action, 2008-05)The history of attempts to limit the methods and means of warfare illustrates that agreed conventions can have a wide-ranging standard setting function that goes far beyond their terms and signatories. The stigmatization ... -
Cosmopolitanism’s Multiple Histories: Going Beyond Conventional Understandings of the Genesis of Cosmopolitan Thought
(Morlacchi Editore, 2014-09-08)Like other intellectual fields, cosmopolitan thought today is partly constructed through narrations of its history, which debate what is living and dead in previous forms of cosmopolitical thinking. A standard narration ... -
Critical theory and contemporary social movements: Conceptualizing resistance in the neoliberal age
(SAGE Publications, 2013-05-02)The advent of an unregulated and financial form of capitalism, combined with a sharp rise in income inequalities and economic insecurity since the 1970s, appears to pose, at first glance, a significant challenge for the ... -
Critical Theory and Libertarian Socialism Realizing the Political Potential of Critical Social Theory
(Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2014-01-02)This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series examines the role critical theory plays in today's political, social, and economic crises, showing how it can help to both diagnose and remedy such problems. -
A Cure for Humanity: the Transhumanisation of Culture
(EWHA Institute for the Humanities, 2015)This paper examines the increasing integration of the radical human enhancement project into the cultural mainstream. The tacit identification of enhancement with therapy is no longer contested, but widely accepted. ... -
Data Interpretation in the Digital Age
(MIT Press, 2014)The consultation of internet databases and the related use of computer software to retrieve, visualise and model data have become key components of many areas of scientific research. This paper focuses on the relation of ... -
Data Sharing and Dual-Use Issues
(Springer, 2011-07)The concept of dual-use encapsulates the potential for well-intentioned, beneficial scientific research to also be misused by a third party for malicious ends. The concept of dual-use challenges scientists to look beyond ... -
Detachment and Compensation: Groundwork for a Metaphysics of "Biosocial Becoming".
(SAGE, 2014-01)There are many in the social sciences and social philosophy who would aspire to overcome the ‘nature/culture binary’, including some who, with at least an implicit nod toward a putatively ‘antiessentialist’ process ... -
Development, Wellbeing and Perceptions of the ‘Expert’ in Ladakh, North-West India
(Berghahn Journals, 2016)In Ladakh, north-west India, a popular narrative of the region’s inhabitants as spiritually and ecologically enlightened combines with national sustainable and participatory development policies to produce a distinctive ... -
The digital revolution: camouflage uniforms in the 21st century
(SAGE, 2014-01)It has been widely acknowledged that military uniforms are significant not only in terms of their practical utility but in terms of their symbolic function. If this is the case, then it is surely noteworthy that in the ... -
The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science
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Do animals have a bad life?
(University of Illinois Press, 2016)It has been argued that, due to our commitment to distributive justice and fairness, we have a moral obligation towards animals to enhance, or “uplift”, them to quasi-human status, so that they, too, can enjoy all the ... -
Documenting the emergence of bio-ontologies: or, why researching bioinformatics requires HPSSB.
(Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, 2010)This paper reflects on the analytic challenges emerging from the study of bioinformatic tools recently created to store and disseminate biological data, such as databases, repositories, and bio-ontologies. I focus my ... -
Dual-use Issues and Data Sharing
(Springer, 2013)The concept of dual-use encapsulates the potential for well-intentioned, beneficial scientific research to also be misused by a third party for malicious ends. The concept of dual-use challenges scientists to look beyond ...