Roger Burrows
@rogerjburrows.bsky.social
Bristol & Melbourne. Sociology. Geography. Urban Studies. Digital Culture. Prof in Global Inequalities, School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol; Hon Prof, School of Sociology, ANU; Adjunct Prof, Social Sciences, Adelaide University.
New article out with Bev Skeggs and @rogerjburrows.bsky.social in @culsoc.bsky.social on how cultural consumption data's enrolment into insurance, health, housing and other areas that extends symbolic violence and means we nee to think about culture differently
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Here's a link to the lectures, most of which are chats with other researchers, for my Algorithm/AI/Data course. I’m hoping it can become somewhat of a public resource too so please send it to anyone you think may be interested in a critical look at our new data driven overlords. 1/2
Consumption, Technology and Everyday Life 2026 - YouTube
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If you're interested in this talk but can't make it today, I'll be re-hashing a version with more emphasis on care services for the Newcastle Youth Studies seminar tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9am GMT. Registration here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/from-resis...
From Resisting AI to Decomputing
Dan McQuillan talks critical AI politics
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Dan McQuillan@danmcquillan.bsky.social · 2mo agoVery late notice, but I'll be doing an informal talk and discussion for SPINE (Speculative Inquiry into Ethics) tomorrow on 'AI, Decomputing and its Discontents'. Open registration events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efc27d...
Any VC/SMT/Council with the resource and even a small modicum of progressive and strategic sensibility would give this a new home.
Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
A eulogy from Will here on what we were able to do at PERC, with a handful of staff, a small budget, a willingness to carry furniture when organising events, a brilliant wider network & some amazing students. It was a very special time and place.
Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
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Looking back on PERC - Political Economy Research Centre
The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...
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If you, like me, became a data fiend in the 20th century only to become horrified by all things 21st century, I suggest this pairing of The First Measured Century with @marionf.bsky.social and @kjhealy.co's The Ordinal Society, a fine angle on the second measured century.
This is amazing stuff from @stevethreadgold.bsky.social
Steve Threadgold@stevethreadgold.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere's a link to the lectures, most of which are chats with other researchers, for my Algorithm/AI/Data course. I’m hoping it can become somewhat of a public resource too so please send it to anyone you think may be interested in a critical look at our new data driven overlords. 1/2
The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all
The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all
A fascinating, infuriating, immaculately researched account of how wealth management giants snap up the services upon which rely to extract eye-watering profits
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Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein). www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
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FREE EBOOK! Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.
Cities Under Siege
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...
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New paper from CODE ENCOUNTERS @nuffieldfoundation.org project on role of open banking and digital profiling in access to private renting in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
The movement to ditch democracy in favour of start-up cities run by CEOs | CBC Radio
What do you get when you take some of the classic Enlightenment values like reason, fairness, and justice, and substitute them with opinion, privilege and power: The Dark Enlightenment — a movement th...
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