books by herself and her collaborators, G. Scott Williamson and Lucy Crocker, The case for action (1931), Biologists in search of material (1938), and The Peckham experiment (1943). Set up in the 1930s, the Peckham centre housed under one roof an enomous range of social activities for the community, from carpentry and swimming to ante-natal guidance, in the service of two deeper scientific goal...

Drylands worldwide, together with the variously nomadic peoples who live there, are associated with the incidence of poverty and environmental degradation. Corresponding assertions of pending social and ecological collapse have paved the way for hegemonic development and policy interventions focusing on the settlement of formerly mobile populations, reductions of livestock numbers, land privati...

We seem to be living in an age when the only way we can justify an organisational activity is with the use of numbers. Numbers, on the other hand, appear unarguable. The only way to argue with numbers is to find different numbers. To us numbers carry the imprimatur of truth. Yet, in 1979, Campbell documented his pessimistic laws of quantitative indicators. The more any quantitative indicator is...

Technologie usprawniające działanie człowieka rodzą poważne pytania etyczne dotyczące praktyk zdrowotnych, które nie służą już tylko leczeniu chorób, ale proponują również „optymalizację” fizycznych, poznawczych i psychologicznych zdolności ludzi. W tym artykule dokonujemy koncepcyjnego wyjaśnienia pojęć biowładzy biopolityki oraz argumentujemy za ich użytecznością we współczesnej analizie. Trz...

Scotland has a reputation for not being wholly at ease with its sexuality. Hence the delight with which, some years ago, a panellist on the BBC's News Quiz read out a cutting from the Inverness Courier: "Perhaps the most worrying feature of the AIDS virus is that it can be transmitted during normal sexual intercourse between a man and a woman. Fortunately this is still very rare in Scotland". I...

A joint Border Forensics and Human Rights Watch investigation revealed that the Libyan Coast Guard (LCG) pull-backs are facilitated by plane drone surveillance provided Frontex (the European Agency) to LCG about migrant boats (Sunderland & Pezzani, 2022). Migrants who returned Libya enslaved, extorted, tortured, raped killed (UNHRC, 2023); among them, Daoud (pseudonym), a student activist from ...

We suggest that the framework proposed by Vigil is useful in laboratory contexts but might come up short for in vivo social interactions. Emotions result from cost-benefits trade-offs but are not solely generated at the individual level to establish emotional social spheres. In organizational contexts, emotion expression can be a constitutive part of a professional activity, and observed sex di...

To understand the full significance of computer music's instrumentality, I propose to extend Heidegger's reflection on technology to a broader complex of concepts that Michel Foucault defined. This reflection leads to a perspective that highlights issues of somaticity and performative textuality in computer music. It also helps underscore a new understanding of subjectivity, a new way of being-...