Not IMRaD: The Anatomy of a Best-Practice Article
What a practice-facing scholarly article is for, why the empirical template breaks it, and the three-part engine that makes each paragraph argue.
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Browse page 7 of Adam DJ Brett's blog archive with posts on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and project updates.
Merely Anecdotal: Dewey, Warranted Assertibility, and the Philosophy of Practice Knowledge
American pragmatism supplies the missing philosophy of practice knowledge, and it answers the charge that professional experience is a softer kind of evidence.
Feeding the System: Marx’s Four Estrangements and Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance
Alienation is the theoretical name for work that has become estranged from the worker, and resonance is the positive concept a critique of work needs to build toward.
Can We Still Think: Yuk Hui, Machine Reason, and the Case for Technodiversity
Between hype and doom there is a third posture toward artificial intelligence: hold the machine at arm’s length and ask what kind of reason it actually is.
The Moment Before You Know You Are Afraid: Affect Theory and What Feelings Do
An introduction to affect with an A: the distinction between affect and emotion, how feeling circulates and sticks, and why researchers should track atmospheres.
Never Let a Printer Know You Are in a Hurry: Actor-Network Theory and the Agency of Things
A working introduction to Latour’s vocabulary for tracing how documents, buildings, software, and objects help assemble the social worlds we study.
A Corpse That Sets the Terms: Taking Accelerationism With and Against
What accelerationism gets right, what it costs, and why a vocabulary its own critics call dead still shapes how people with power argue about AI.
From a London Notebook to a Warwick Basement: The People Who Built Accelerationism
A genealogy of accelerationist thought from Marx’s Fragment on Machines through Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari, the CCRU, and the critic who named the whole thing.
Faster, Slower, or Redirected: Accelerationism and the Tempo of Practice
Srnicek and Williams give a vocabulary for the speed and direction of change; Aristotle’s phronesis supplies the judgment about which speed is right here.
Nothing Human Makes It Out: From Land’s Meltdown to the e/acc Party
How right accelerationism runs from a 1994 Warwick essay through the Dark Enlightenment to effective accelerationism, and what gets quietly cut along the way.
Seize the Machines: Left Accelerationism and the Politics of the Springboard
How Williams and Srnicek answered the left’s silence after 2008, what their manifesto demanded, and why the demands outlived the theory attached to them.
The More It Happens, the More It Happens: A Field Guide to Accelerationist Vocabulary
Six terms defined properly, from deterritorialization and real subsumption to hyperstition and the fork between repurposing the machines and unleashing them.