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David’s latest book, Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems, has entered production at Routledge, and is available for pre-order now, due for publication at the end of May 2018. Kreps, D., (2018) Against Nature: The Metaphysics […]
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From 1st January 2018 David Kreps became Chair of the International Federation for Information Processing’s Technical Committee 9 on ICT and Society, leading nearly 600 academics and practitioners from over 60 countries across ten different […]
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In August 2017 David was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the duration of 2018. This highly prestigious award allows “academics to focus on a major piece of research and to communicate their work to […]
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David is Chair and Editor-in-Chief, along with co-Chairs Charles Ess, Kai Kimppa, and Louise Leenen, of the 13th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and Computers Conference: This Changes Everything, which will take place as part of […]
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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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David published an article, in February 2014, in The Conversation, in response to the purchase, by Facebook, of the instant messenger, WhatsApp. The full article is here. The article was also posted on the Salford […]
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David published a paper in the journal, tripleC – Cognition, Communication, Co-operation, in 2011, entitled, ‘Social Networking and Transnational Capitalism’. Abstract: Social Networking Sites (SNS) have become a key component of users’ experience of the internet. […]
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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 is Chair and Editor-in-Chief, along with co-Chairs Charles Ess, Kai Kimppa, and Louise Leenen, of the 13th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and Computers Conference: This Changes Everything, which will take place as part of […]
David presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) ‘Digital Innovation at the Crossroads’ Dublin 11-14 December 2016, in the Methodological and Philosophical Foundations of IS Track. David was one of nine nominees (out […]
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.