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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.

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.