Khat-Chewing, Adiaphorisation and Morality: Rethinking Ethics in the Age of the Synopticon
Critical CriminologyAbstractIn June 2014, the UK Government made khat (Catha edulis) a Class C drug under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act. Based on limited evidence, this decision went against the Government's own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and has divided members of the British–Somali diaspora, where khat is a popular form of recreation. The Government’s decision
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Surveillant institutional eyes in South Korea [PDF]
, 2007 노트 : This article was originally presented at the workshop, 10–11 February 2006, The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University ...
Kwang-Suk Lee
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Calling in Call-out Culture: An Analysis on Call-out Culture and its influence on Filipino Twitter [PDF]
, 2021 Call-out culture has become a questionable phenomenon in and out of Filipino Twitter due to the differing ideologies that participants have perpetuated, separating Filipino communities based on their standing on certain topics on the internet. The reason
Averion, Danielle P. +3 more
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The five routes to a Brexit: how the UK might leave the European Union [PDF]
, 2014 Given the dispute over the new President of the European Commission, and UKIP’s success in the European Parliament elections, the UK’s EU membership is likely to be a key issue in the campaign for the 2015 UK general election.
Oliver, Tim
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The Ukraine crisis is forcing the EU to abandon normative power and act more strategically in its eastern neighbourhood [PDF]
, 2015 The EU has often been conceived of as a ‘normative power’ in the sense that it exerts influence by promoting values and norms through technocratic cooperation and diplomacy.
Nitoiu, Cristian
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Protesters’ Reactions to Video Surveillance of Demonstrations: Counter-Moves, Security Cultures, and the Spiral of Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance [PDF]
, 2018 This article analyses protesters’ reactions to police video surveillance of demonstrations in Germany. Theoretically, we draw on the concept of a “spiral of surveillance and counter-surveillance” to understand the interaction processes which ...
Knopp, Philipp, Ullrich, Peter
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TV Art, Ubiquity and Immersion. A Dialogue of Translation [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceIn his extremely suggestive essay entitled "Towards an Immersive Intelligence", artist and theorist Joseph Nechvatal defines immersive virtual reality art as "an art that has a continuous, coherent quality and strives to ambiently ...
Citton, Yves
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Show me the prison! the development of prison tourism in the UK [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents an analysis of the historical development and interpretation of prison tourism in the UK Britain and the influence of this on current representations of prison museums via prison museum websites.
Barton, Alana, Brown, Alyson
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The Unprecedented Event: Acknowledging Badiou’s Challenge to Art and Its Education [PDF]
, 2010 In terms of this year’s journal theme, ”unprecedented,” there is no other contemporary philosopher who has a more radical notion than Alain Badiou when it comes to theorizing the new; that is, the emergence of an unprecedented Event ex nihilio—not novel ...
Jagodzinski, Jan
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Anonymous: The Occupy Movement and the Failure of Representational Democracy [PDF]
, 2013 In this essay I try to make the case that the Occupy Movement can be thought through as a Post-Situationist art event which requires that it be thought of in terms of its pragmatic effects and what it can ‘do’ in relation to its viral spreading around ...
Jagodzinski, Jan
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