Digital Activism Workshop

10am – 4pm, Friday 11 November 2016 MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN. (Map) Are new technologies transforming the way we do politics? Which new innovations are soon to reshape our communities? Discuss these issues with prominent academics,...

Protest Talks: Political Technologies PhD Seminar

On 17th March 2016, 3-5pm, Room G.6, Humanities Bridgeford Street, we’re delighted to have two fascinating talks on the basis of advanced PhD research. All welcome. Thomas Redshaw: A critical theory of Bitcoin: How politics is embedded in crypto-currencies In...

Reflections on ‘The Problem with Democracy’

Parliamentary Affairs has just published an interesting public lecture by Matthew Flinders, along with responses by Jack Corbett and Ian Marsh. The lecture brings together a whole host of complaints that have been targeted at advanced liberal democracies in trying to...