Blog Profile / Potlatch
| URL : | http://potlatch.typepad.com/weblog/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / Sociology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 277 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.2 | |
| Archived Since: | February 14, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
come and study with us
All details here (and details of my module on value and valuation here). We're also receiving applications from prospective PhD students.
new report on public service mutuals
While I was changing jobs last autumn, I was also working on some research looking at the experiences of public sector organisations that transfer to the status of mutuals. Given that this is quite a major policy theme for the...
where do neoliberals go after the market?
My colleague, Nate Tkacz and I, have put together a conference at CIM, which tries to think about neoliberalism in terms of rival technologies of information-processing. In particular, could the market be usurped within the neoliberal imagination by other 'smarter'...
Britain's Brezhnev-style capitalism
Karl Marx believed, optimistically, that capitalism was creating the conditions of its own socialist successor, through bringing an emergent class together in cities and factories, where they would inevitably discover their shared interest and the superiority of common ownership. Optimistic...
who will defend liberalism?
People will always round on 'liberalism' (in the European, not American, sense of the word) at times of perceived crisis. Opponents of liberalism will even seek to engineer crises in order to attack it. New Labour was blessed with one...
review of Economists and the Powerful
I've reviewed Economists and the Powerful for New Left Project. You can read my review here.
Warwick teaching and training...
For any academics, graduate students or prospective graduate students reading this, please check out a few things that colleagues and I at CIM are running over the next year: We are offering a Masters in Digital Media and Culture, starting...
Santander 2013
This advertisement should be in the running for the Turner Prize. It is one of the most unsettling pieces of film that I've ever seen, reducing advertising to a set of blank and bland facts, to be recited out of...
the problem of 'evidence centres'
Reading the news this week that the government is to set up new 'evidence centres' to inform, criticise and influence £200bn-worth of public policy, my immediate thought was - why now? New Labour came into power singing the praises of...
article published in Theory Culture & Society
My article, 'When is a market not a market?: 'Exemption', 'externality' and 'exception' in the case of European State Aid rules' has now appeared online at Theory Culture & Society (I assume this means it will be in the March...
my new reports on co-operatives and mutuals
Just as I was leaving my previous job, at the Centre for Mutual and Employee-owned Business, I was involved in three different pieces of writing, a couple of which have now been published (the third will follow in the next...
York conference on neoliberalism
Everybody needs to go to this excellent-looking - and free - conference at York in June, Neoliberalism, Crisis and World System. They've assembled some excellent speakers (plus me). My paper will develop some of the ideas in my neo-communitarianism piece,...
"when you find yourself in the thick of it..."
A few years ago, while sitting in Euphorium bakery on Upper Street, I observed a couple of Islington characters, possibly undercover lawyers, enter the cafe and sit down at the table next to mine. Both were 30-something men in uniform...
Speaking at UEL, 6th February
I'm speaking at University of East London on 6th February, at a seminar entitled Security, Community & Democracy. My talk will be developing some of the ideas from my recent piece on neo-communitarianism: ‘Experiments in Community: Relational Government and Audit...
Political Quarterly article published
My article, The Emerging Neocommunitarianism, which I've already uploaded a pre-print of, is now published in Political Quarterly!
conclusion to Uneconomics
I've written a concluding piece for the Uneconomics essay series, that I've been editing over the course of the year. You can read it here (I didn't write the headline) or a chunk here: A great deal has been said...
the problem with clever people
Flicking through my Guardian app on my way to work today, I came across David Mitchell's Sunday column, which opened with the following vignette: My old flatmate, as I've mentioned here before, was fascinated by the question: "Which would you...
after neoliberalism article
This article on 'neo-communitarianism' is due to appear in the next edition of Political Quarterly. In the meantime, I've tried to outline the argument in a shorter piece, for an interesting new online magazine, Aeon. You can read the article...
new job
I'm changing jobs. As of next week I will be Assistant Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at University of Warwick, working with Celia Lury and others. So sadly my involvement in the world of co-operatives and mutuals will...
equality of opportunity has not existed
Like the Judaic idea of God, ‘equality of opportunity’ is something that is only ever spoken of as a perpetual absence. Those who profess to be in favour of it are sometimes able to point to examples of it in...