There are a growing number of automated decision aids based on game-theoretic algorithms in daily use by security agencies to assist in allocating or scheduling their limited security resources. These applications of game theory, based on the “security games” paradigm, are leading to fundamental research challenges: one major challenge is modeling human bounded rationality. More specifically, t...

Abstract Against the backdrop of climate crisis and Anthropocene injustices, this conversation unfolds concept allochrony to examine modernity as a temporal regime that relied on attribution non-simultaneity populations western colonies under ethnographic gaze 19th early 20th centuries. Positioning racialized signifier “the primitive” key foil in understanding articulation modern subjectivity a...

McDonaldisation is the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of society. The aims of this article are to explore the possible impacts of McDonaldisation on the labour process and expose the hidden agenda behind McDonaldisation. My main argument is that McDonaldisation is the realization of an extremely instrumental rationality w...

The writings of Weber and Taylor have some strong affinities. Both start from the anthropological idea that man evaluates his position in the world and constitutes the social world by values. Their analyses of values aim at an understanding of those intersubjective meanings that have constituted western modernity. But, at the same time, their anthropological starting point leads to different in...