http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2012/01/nature-nurture-and-liberal-values-roger-scruton-jesse-prinz-david-eagleman-neuroscience/ Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses ]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:35:21 -0700 http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2012/01/nature-nurture-and-liberal-values-roger-scruton-jesse-prinz-david-eagleman-neuroscience/ http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4142 "The everyday experience of liberal capitalism rests upon the violent defence of the boundaries against the other that the system itself produces. That banal and pacifying phrase ‘social exclusion’ allows us to forget the material experience of exclusion and the subjectivities that it tends to generate." ]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:39:01 -0700 http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4142 http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/left-vs-right/ A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course, the political spectrum is not quite so polarised. Actually, its more of a diamond shape, apparently. But this is how its mostly presented via the media left wing vs. right wing, liberal vs. conservative, Labour vs Tory. And perhaps in our minds too& Well, certainly in my mind. Researching this showed me that, despite my inevitable journalistic lean to the left, I am actually a bit more right than… ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:28:00 -0700 http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/left-vs-right/