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Automation Anxieties and Infrastructural Technologies (2019)
Journal Article
Goffey, A. (2019). Automation Anxieties and Infrastructural Technologies. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, 2019(98), 29-47. https://doi.org/10.3898/NEWF%3A98.03.2019

Contesting binaries that tend to underlie claims about automation, this article seeks to complicate arguments that are made about digital technology and the processes and practices of automation essential to it. In particular, it contests a well-entr... Read More about Automation Anxieties and Infrastructural Technologies.

Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson (2018)
Book
Lapoujade, D., & Goffey, A. (2018). Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson. Twin Cities, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press

In Powers of Time, David Lapoujade returns to two central themes that continuously converge throughout the writings of the French philosopher Henri Bergson: durée (duration) and intuition. Lapoujade uncovers multiple versions of Bergson, guiding us t... Read More about Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson.

Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality (2016)
Book Chapter
Goffey, A. (2016). Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality. In P. Harvey, C. Bruun Jensen, & A. Morita (Eds.), Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Companion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622880-45

The National Programme for IT, or NPfIT for short, was a flagship IT project of the first Labour administration initiated by Tony Blair in 2002. Headed by Richard Grainger and costing an alleged £18.7bn, it was widely billed as the ‘biggest IT project... Read More about Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality.

Towards a rhizomatic technical history of control (2015)
Journal Article
Goffey, A. (2015). Towards a rhizomatic technical history of control. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, 58-73. https://doi.org/10.3898/NewF%3A84/85.03.2015

Gilles Deleuze's Postscript on Control Societies lends itself readily - too readily, perhaps - to historical interpretations of control that accept the universalising claims of techno-science. Critical social and cultural theory tacitly confirms the... Read More about Towards a rhizomatic technical history of control.

Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique (2015)
Journal Article
Goffey, A. (2015). Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique. Medical Humanities, 41(1), 8-13. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2014-010661

Through a discussion of a range of research drawn from the humanities and social sciences, and with a particular emphasis on work that tackles questions about the discourse of the life sciences, this paper considers some of the difficulties with rese... Read More about Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique.