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David Beer discusses Metric Power on the New Books in Critical Theory podcast with Dave O’Brien. How do metrics rule the social world? In Metric Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) David Beer, Reader in Sociology at the University of York, outlines the rise of the metric and the … Continue reading →

Michel Foucault e as insurreições: é inútil revoltar-se?, Margareth Rago, Sílvio Gallo (orgs.). Thanks to Marcelo Hoffman for the link to this collection, who says that many of the contributors will also be contributing to the next issue of the Carceral … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Politics Reconsidered:
Written by Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams and Dr. Georg Löfflmann for The Conversation. Fortress Europe: Macdeonian soldiers patrol the Greek border. Georgi Licovski/EPA Despite being bombarded with headlines about the “migrant crisis” facing Europe, little is really known…

I’ve mentioned Helen Sword’s book Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write here before. There is a short discussion on this theme from her in the Times Higher Education. How do successful academics write, and how do they … Continue reading →

Sandro Mezzadra and David Harvey discuss the right to the city in Bologna.

I’ve been collecting some links on time-management, but not found the rationale for tying them together in something more substantial. So, here are simply the links… Shannon Mattern, Where does the time go? at Words in Space Mark Carrigan, Productivity … Continue reading →

Primo Levi – Translating and Being Translated, translated by Harry Thomas