Volume 40 Issue 2 (2024)
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Agnes Horvath, Magic and the Will to Science: A Political Anthropology of Liminal Technicality
Agnes Horvath has written about politics, sociology and the social functions of tricksters and other subversive forces. She appears well qualified to discuss the social function of magic, especially if,…
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Editorial
Artificial intelligence and academic publishing Time was when plagiarism was the most common offence committed by the academic author. By feeding Google a selection of distinctive phrases from a submission,…
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von Hippel innovation
Round about 1940, a number of elements related to innovation processes were pulled together and organized as ‘Schumpeterian innovation’. The result was to provide framing and focus – a useful…
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How does innovation arise in the bicycle sector? The users’ role and their betrayal in the case of the ‘gravel bike’
This paper examines the emergence of the ‘gravel bike’, a new and successful category of sports bicycles that gained prominence in the global cycling industry in the late 2010s, to…
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Bjørn Lomborg, False Alarm
Say you woke up one morning and decided to publish something on a controversial topic with a view to maximizing your sales. You might choose climate change and global warming…
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Bas de Boer, How Scientific Instruments Speak: Postphenomenology and Technological Mediations in Neuroscientific Practice
In a cognitive neuroscience laboratory, scientists make use of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) technology to stimulate the brain at its specific locations. They employ an electroencephalogram (EEG) to read visualized…
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Gibson Burrell, Ronald Hartz, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley and Friends, Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at our Universities
This is a difficult book to review, simply because the story it tells is so disturbing. The task is made doubly difficult by the context in which it has been…