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some new papers: Northern Territory Intervention, Latour’s “Politics of Nature” and the Index

There are some new papers on the circulations page. The most recent is one about numbers and facts in the Northern Territory Intervention. Much of it is about Income quarantining or income management and how this effect a multiplicity in money value which is an unusual case in Western markets. I’m still working on this [...]

What are concepts in considering maths as a cultural practice?

I’m going to start working in the question ‘what is a concept?’ It is one thread weaving through the debate about method and metaphysics that is going on in a number of places at the moment. But I want to begin with the project called Maths as a Cultural Practice. It is a project between [...]

Speaking for Others: small steps and giant leaps

Recently I have been working on a paper about the Digital Objects at work in the Healthy Breathing and Heart Project. In the first draft of a paper I wrote that I was assuming an ‘double outsider’ and referenced a piece of work by Helen Verran where she wrote of being an outsider in what [...]

Being wrong, tolerating dissent

A recent quote by a man of the moment, educationalist and thinker Ken Robinson has had quite a profound effect on me: ‘nothing original can be achieved if you are in fear of being wrong.’ Certainly as a university student the fear of being wrong is strong. I still feel it in writing this blog. [...]