Free Book! Badiou in Jamaica: The Politics of Conflict

As promised in an earlier post, here I am blowing my own trumpet! My book, Badiou in Jamaica: The Politics of Conflict is finally out. I went with Re.Press because they are an Open Access publisher committed to enabling intellectual work at a distance from the market logics increasingly dominating even academic publishing. In other words, …

Critical Theory Meets Science & Technology Studies

Last week I got invited to give a talk by the University of Nottingham Institute for Science and Society.  As well as really enjoying it and meeting some great people, I got asked some interesting questions that made me think about different elements of my research: particularly issues surrounding potential incompatibilities between policy and activism. …

Refugee Week 14-29th June

As anyone who reads a mainstream paper every now and again cannot fail to notice, the issues posed by refugees, assylum seekers and immigration are regularly caricatured to produce a political football useful for point-scoring between political parties. However, behind the partisan rhetoric is a complex, culturally diverse and very urgent human reality that Refugee Week 2013 helps to bring to …