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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 November 2016 David published a white paper, with Marie Griffiths, in the Salford White Paper Series, and on Medium. “Wearable Technology in the Workplace” by David Kreps and Marie Griffiths, Salford Business School https://medium.com/@salfordbizsch/wearable-technology-in-the-workplace-bdbc7b316c85#.ppxf2jm4d
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 […]
A very interesting study of Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) in the UK has been published today, with a particularly interesting (and resonant) paragraph in the opening pages: “Career-related barriers – Careers rooted solely in IDR are […]
David will be presenting in the Philosophy of I.S. track at the International Conference on Information Systems, Dublin, Ireland, 10th-14th December, 2016.
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 […]
In July 2016 David gave an interview to the Hong Kong based South China Morning Post and answered lots of questions about the future of sex robots – the hot topic of both Keynote speakers […]
David presented at the 12th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and Computers Conference, Technology and Intimacy: Choice or Coercion, 7-9 September, 2016, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, UK, (HCC12). Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of ‘skeuomorphic […]
David presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cultural Political Economy: Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy, at the University of Bristol, Thursday, 25th August 2016. Abstract: Cultural Political Economy (CPE) as readily acknowledges […]
Stern’s report on the UK REF was published this month, and made some pretty grim reading. Two paragraphs in particular caught my eye: Scope for ‘gaming’ 31. the practice of making a highly selective submission […]
David presented about his book, Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence, at the Deleuze Studies Conference 2016: Virtuality:Becoming:Life, Rome, Italy, 13/7/2016 Abstract: Durée Réelle : microphysical indetermination : creative emergence Bergson argues that measurable time is an artificial […]