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William Davies, This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain – Verso, August 2020 What just happened and how did we get into this mess? Since 2016, the UK has been in a crisis of its own making; this … Continue reading →

Rob Kitchin and Alistair Fraser, Slow Computing: Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives – Bristol University Press, September 2020 The book has a companion website where the first chapter and coda are available to download. Digital technologies should be making … Continue reading →

Keith Dowding, It’s the Government, Stupid: How Governments Blame Citizens for their own Policies – Bristol University Press, September 2021 Governments have developed a convenient habit of blaming social problems on their citizens, including homelessness, gun crime, obesity, drug addiction … Continue reading →

Mark Carrigan, Some thoughts on blogging during a pandemic Mark’s book, Social Media for Academics, is now in its second edition.

frictionless sovereignty | special issue b2o: an online journal is an online-only, free-to-read, peer-reviewed journal published by the boundary 2 editorial collective, with a standalone Editorial Board. Volume 5, Issue 2 (August 2020)Special Issue: Frictionless SovereigntySpecial Issue editor: Ryan Bishop Ryan Bishop, “Frictionless Sovereignty: An Introduction” … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In the UK, the next academic year begins in September or early October. While most universities have said lectures will be delivered online, they seem to be keen to have some face-to-face teaching of smaller…

Beata Stawarska, Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century, Palgrave, 2020 There is a discussion at New Books Network This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly … Continue reading →