Towards a social theory of acceleration: Time, modernity, critique

Wittgenstein, modernity and the critique of modernism

Risk Socity: Towards a New Modernity (Book Review)

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The motor theory of social cognition: a critique.

Recent advances in the cognitive neuroscience of action have considerably enlarged our understanding of human motor cognition. In particular, the activity of the mirror system, first discovered in the brain of non-human primates, provides an observer with the understanding of a perceived action by means of the motor simulation of the agent's observed movements. This discovery has raised the pro...

Revising Foucault: The history and critique of modernity

I offer a major reassessment of Foucault’s philosophico-historical account of the basic problems of modernity. I revise our understanding of Foucault by countering the influential misinterpretations proffered by his European interlocutors such as Habermas and Derrida. Central to Foucault’s account of modernity was his work on two crucial concept pairs: freedom/power and reason/madness. I argue ...

Towards a critique of interaction

Interactive systems are truly popular nowadays: virtually each computermusic studio around the world is equipped with commercial real-time machinery, if it has not even developed its own one. New musical applications are no longer described in terms of their expressive power, richness or flexibility of the environment, or adequacy to tackle a given problem, but rather in terms of their real-tim...