David Kreps Blog

University of Sussex

External Examiner, Sussex University

In October 2014 David went to Brighton to act as External Examiner for Alan D’Aiello. Alan’s thesis was on “Communicating in the Local: Digital Communications Technology Use in Brighton’s Gay Pub Scene” and made...

eLearning Group Leader

Completing his role as a TEL Champion, David has been appointed Leader of the newly formed eLearning Group, by the Associate Dean (Academic), in Salford Business School.  The first task will be to co-ordinate...

Review of Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews have published a review of Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence by John Protevi, Louisiana State University. Protevi has mixed reactions to the book, concerned that inattention to customary practices in the discipline results in...

The Apprentice – article in The Conversation

With colleagues Marie Griffiths and Maria Kutar, David published an article, in November 2015, in The Conversation, about the impressions given by the popular TV programme, The Apprentice, of what things are like in...

Theorising Web 3.0

David published a paper in the journal, Information Technology and People, in 2015, entitled, ‘Theorising Web 3.0: ICTs in a Changing Society’.  This paper was also the Editorial for a Special Issue of Information Technology and People,...

KTP and RRI: The Perfect Match

David and his KTP associate Jessica Blaynee presented a paper at the ETHICOMP Conference, held at de Montfort University, in September 2015. Proceedings are here Papers are also available at the ACM Library Abstract:...

Gramsci and Foucault: Hegemony in the Global Episteme

David presented a paper at the Inaugural Conference on Cultural Political Economy in Lancaster, held by Bob Jessop – who wrote a review of Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment, for the back cover, and Ngai-Ling Sum,...

Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence

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...