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In August 2017 David was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. This highly prestigious award allows “academics to focus on a major piece of research and to communicate their work to a wider audience, by […]
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David presented a paper at the ‘Diagnoses of Matter and Memory: Bergson and the Problems of Brain, Time and Memory’ 8th International Colloquium of Project Bergson in Japan, in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, 10th-13th November […]
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In September 2016 David was Chair of the 12th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and Computers Conference, “Technology and Intimacy: Choice or Coercion” at MediaCityUK, Salford Quays.The Proceedings were published by Springer. IFIP has a formal […]
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This is a book about evolution – from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of one of the great French philosophers, Henri Bergson (1859-1941), and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical […]
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Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work […]
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In October 2017 David’s first monograph, Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence, was made available in a soft back edition by the publishers, Palgrave – at a third of the price of the hardback!
In September 2017, David co-authored an article in The Conversation responding to Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan’s prediction a bonfire of industry jobs in the Banking sector as automation takes hold across the finance sector.
In August 2017, a new review of David’s book of collected essays Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment, written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science was published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History of […]
In August 2017 David was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. This highly prestigious award allows “academics to focus on a major piece of research and to communicate their work to a wider audience, by […]
In September 2017 David will be one of the invited Keynote Speakers at NITC / SEARCC CONFERENCE 2017 Colombo, Sri Lanka, speaking on Digital Inclusion.
David presented at ETHICOMP 2017, in Turin, Italy, in June 2017. Abstract: This paper presents a conception of personhood as both physical and social, and both as radically contingent upon their respective physical and social environments. […]
At the meeting of Technical Committee 9 today, in Turin, Italy, David was elected as the forthcoming Chair, to take up the role on 1st January 2018. This will be a fantastic opportunity for David […]
In May 2017 David published an article in The Conversation entitled Ten ways Manchester is set to become one of the world’s top “digital cities”, asking whether, as new Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, suggested in his Manifesto, Manchester […]
The Journal Political Studies Review have included a Review, by Fernando José Ludwig, of David’s edited collection of essays Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment, which extols the virtues of the book: “the book contains all the aspects of […]
David will be Chairing, along with co-Chairs Charles Ess, Kai Kimppa, and Louise Leenen, the 13th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and Computers Conference, which will take place as part of the IFIP World Computer Congress […]