What Has Driven Our Elites Insane? 10-11th December 2026 @ York University, Toronto, Canada Workshop Organizers Kean Birch, York University, Canada David Tyfield, Lancaster University, UK Abstract Submission Please submit your paper proposal to both… Read More »CfP: What has Driven Our Elites Insane? Workshop
I’m Director of a new research centre at York University called the Institute for Technoscience & Society. Check out the recently launched website! “Our aim is to build a global hub of critical and interdisciplinary… Read More »Launch of New Institute!
New Frontiers of Techno-Economic Rentiership in Competition & Change “In this guest introduction, we explore emerging critiques at the frontiers of techno-economic rentiership. Rentiership is a process entailing political-economic and technological (i.e. techno-economic) relations, formations,… Read More »New special issue: New Frontiers of Techno-economic Rentiership
I’ve had a couple of opinion pieces come out over the last couple of months in Canada’s National Post newspaper dealing with competition and Big Tech. They can be accessed here: Opinion: We need to… Read More »Recent Opeds on Big Tech & Competition Policy
I just submitted a consultation response to Senator Wetston’s call to examine Canada’s Competition Act in the ‘digital era’. My response covers three areas: (1) a call for more diversity in this debate on competition… Read More »Consultation Submission: Examining the Canadian Competition Act in the Digital Era
The Society for the Social Studies of Science – one of the world’s key learned society for science and technology studies, or STS – was looking for nominations/proposals for Editorship of its flagship journal, Science,… Read More »Editorship Proposal: “Science, Technology & Human Values”
Here are some podcasts I’ve done recently. I’ve got a couple more lined up: Interview on “Facebook Effect and the Rise of the Data Economy” for The Priv8 Podcast (Jul 2021). Lecture on “The Rise… Read More »Podcasts & Online Talks