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New paper by Nick J Fox explores how the UK's capitalist state supports and extends the private provision of healthcare in the era of globalising capitalism by promoting UK private providers to overseas buyers in India and China. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

New paper by Nick J Fox explores how the UK's capitalist state supports and extends the private provision of healthcare in the era of globalising capitalism by promoting UK private providers to overseas buyers in India and China. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

New posthuman feminist paper by Serena Vicario and Nick J Fox assesses how alcohol consumption contributes to the aggregation of human bodies into socially defined categories, including a female/male gender binary. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Almost all papers and book chapters written by Nick J Fox are available to download on Researchgate at: researchgate.net/profile/Nick-F… Any missing can be supplied privately by contacting Nick there.

About five places left for our in-person conference 'Materiality, Society and the More-than-human' on 23 June at Goldsmiths University of London, with keynote by Lisa Blackman. Full programme and registration (from £10) at: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

Registration open for in-person day conference 'Materiality, society and the more-than-human' on 23 June (Goldsmiths University of London). Keynote from Lisa Blackman, plus nine papers by new materialist scholars. To register: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

I shall be using BlueSky for my posts on sociology and the new materialisms. If you have an account there, please follow me on that platform. My handle is socnewmat and the feed is called 'Sociology and the new materialisms'. Nick J Fox

Registration and call for papers open for the 2025 in-person day-conference 'Materiality, society and the more-than-human'. Mon 23 June at Goldsmith's, Uni of London. Keynote: Prof Lisa Blackman. Submit abstracts by 7 April to: debbie.watson@bristol.ac.uk britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

@Hanelizqui A PhD thesis only has to be 'good enough' to pass. Then you can get on with the rest of your life!

Call for short stories by Jan 31, 2025 for an anthology from Posthuman Press. Theme: Posthuman Entanglement(s) & Co-Existence. "We need stories as a creative practice to help foster posthuman ethics for a more inclusive and pluralistic present and future" posthumanpress.com/pages/antholog…

Theory and Society: Zygmunt Bauman - Book Launch Sponsored by BSA Theory Study Group & The Bauman Institute 13 December 2024 (2:00-3:30pm GMT) Online Book your ticket now! britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa… #SocialThery #Sociology #Theory @britsoci

Nick J Fox critiques the neo-Malthusian proposition that drastic global population reduction is essential to counteract the current climate emergency, via a new materialist, rhizomatic and more-than-human analysis of capitalism. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Last chance to register for free Zoom seminar with Prof Anna Hickey-Moody (Maynooth University, ROI) on: 'Animating the material politics of citizenship.' Tuesday 19 November 2024, at 14:00 – 15:00 GMT. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

BSA New Materialisms seminar: Tuesday 19 November 2024, at 14:00 – 15:00 GMT (via Zoom). Professor Anna Hickey-Moody (Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Maynooth University, ROI) 'Animating the material politics of citizenship.' Register free at: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

Register now for free Zoom seminar from the BSA New Materialisms group on 22 October (1400-1500 BST). Helen Garbett on: 'Limpets lead the way: questioning traditional ways of learning, relating, and knowing'. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

Nick Fox paper 'Artificial Intelligence and the Black Hole of Capitalism: A More-than-Human Political Ethology' argues that AI is already the handmaiden of capitalist enterprise and will suck the world further into its black hole. mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/1…

Register now for Dr Raksha Janak (University of Pretoria) free Zoom seminar on Tues 1 Oct at 1400 BST. ‘Girls and the Sexual Violence Assemblage in Rural Spaces in South Africa’. (BSA New Materialisms seminar series). britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

In ‘Digital healing? Digital capitalism?’, Nick J Fox considers what capacities digital health technologies produce in bodies and the micropolitical impact of the technology in terms of power, resistance and social order. curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/…