Alberto Toscano’s article ‘Sovereignty and Deviation: Notes on Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2’ – exploring the French philosopher’s account of the emergence of Stalinism – is now available [pdf] in the journal Crisis and Critique. Continue reading Sovereignty and Deviation: Notes on Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2
Academic Diary, written by Les Back, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths (UoL) is the first book to be published by Goldsmiths Press.
Composed of highlights from 30 years in academia, Academic Diary provides an articulate reflection on higher education, the various challenges of academia and the day to day encounters British universities face. Structured in Terms (Autumn, Spring and Summer), Academic Diary offers a companionate guide, borrowing from many perspectives toward higher education: the Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Lecturer and Professor.
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Dr Emma Jackson’s ‘Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility’ is in the running for this year’s BBC Radio Four and British Sociological Association Ethnography Award. Published in August 2015, the book is based on an innovative multi-method study of the young people using a King’s Cross day centre. It explores contemporary spaces … Continue reading Emma Jackson shortlisted for Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award
Apprehension. The sounds of the city are all around us, but here inside a brief reprieve. Darkness. Ears relax and open as the harsh streetscape fades. An assault to the nose. Urine. Glass crackles underfoot. Sitting here on my musical stool I begin to sense the city anew. In front, traffic, a busy rush between […] … Continue reading Cours de Poetique: More Than Just a Car Park by Charlotte Bates — Streetsigns
Selfbuild: ‘where the first occupants arrange for the building of their own dwelling and, in various ways, participate in its production’ (Duncan and Rowe 1993: 1331) Recently, I appeared on Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4’s flagship social science programme, talking about my research on selfbuild in an episode focussed on the sociology of housing. You […] … Continue reading What’s Sociological About Selfbuild? by Michaela Benson — Streetsigns
Daniel Neyland & Norma Möllers article ‘Algorithmic IF … THEN rules and the conditions and consequences of power‘, was recently published in the journal Information, Communication & Society. Continue reading Algorithmic IF … THEN rules and the conditions and consequences of power
Daniel Neyland, Goldsmiths, University of London
The online advertising industry has faced a considerable backlash recently as a greater understanding of how the practices of data scraping, aggregation, mining and user profiling are carried out behind the scenes. From Edward Snowden’s revelations of governments using social media to perform mass surveillance, to the often creepy presence of targeted adverts that slow mobile web browsing to a crawl, we’re now much more aware and concerned about who knows what about us.
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Sociology up 10 spaces to 35th in the WORLD in the latest QS World University Rankings 🎉 🎉 🎉 via Four global top 40 subjects for Goldsmiths in QS university league table, Goldsmiths, University of London. Continue reading Sociology 35th in new QS league table
Tomorrow (23 March), Michaela Benson will be discussing her project on self-building with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’. Listen online from 4pm. Continue reading Michaela Benson on Thinking Allowed
Dan Neyland and Sveta Milyaeva’s recent article ‘Market innovation as framing, productive friction and bricolage: an exploration of the personal data market‘ has been published in the Journal of Cultural Economy Continue reading Market innovation as framing, productive friction and bricolage: an exploration of the personal data market
