ion here being understood as that which escapes or abstracts from normative structural enclosure, as juxtaposed with the submissiveness or enclosure imposed by those in positions of authority who sought to impose mere learning, as opposed to the cultivation of creativity; the former being equated by Stirner to subservience, the latter to freedom of the ego. For Stirner, the intrinsic characteri...

We present a new lexicographic enterprise that aims at producing a French Lexical Network or FLN. We begin by introducing the project as such and then proceed with a characterization of the FLN: the FLN as a generic lexical model, its network structure and the different types of lexical entities it models. Finally, we focus on two aspects of our lexicographic methodology: the incremental identi...

Service comprise of socio-technical (human and technological) factors which exchange various resources and competencies. Service networks are used to transfer resources and competencies, yet they remain an underexplored and ‘invisible’ infrastructure. Service networks become increasingly complex when technology is implemented to execute speciic service processes. This ultimately adds to the com...

In this article I discuss the difference between Vygotsky’s and Vasilyuk’s uses of the term perezhivanie. Arguably, this difference may have contributed to some of the current ambiguity regarding the notion of perezhivanie in cultural psychology. In short, I propose that Vasilyuk’s perezhivanie can be understood as a special type of activity, whereas Vygotsky’s perezhivanie can be better unders...

The processes of playing give games their central meaning and need to be at the heart of analysis of computer games – play is what animates this medium. To focus on this I want to go beyond assessing digital games in terms of the text structural features, aesthetic features and functionality and examine the social and economic engagements of the players. The social engagements of online games d...

Environmental sustainability and climate change are issues which must no longer be ignored by anyone, any industry or any academic community. The pervasive technology, ubiquitous computing and HCI community is slowly waking up to these global concerns. The key theme of this workshop around environmental sustainability will be addressed threefold: (1) How to go beyond just informing and into mot...

The concept of limited access highways in the city could be considered as the epitome of modernity; reflecting the ever increasing speed of everyday life and the distancing of individuals from communities (cf. Simmel, Tönnies). Separation from contact with the landscape and its effect on space-time relationships creates a new spatiality (see Augé, 1995). While laying concrete across the country...

How do technologies matter for security politics? This article introduces the kind of arguments an infrastructural approach would focus its answer on. It illustrates how work by focussing on spyware Pegasus developed Israeli company NSO matters Swiss politics. follows showing and why it tend to three things primarily: politics infrastructures is inscribed in, processes infrastructuring software...

“Postdualist” approaches, such as the material turn in humanities and social sciences, represent understandable reactions to humanist idealist traditions Western thought, but tend be deluded by a focus on individual artifacts rather than global, relations which their existence depends. The attribution of agency even desires abiotic objects, championed posthumanist researchers Bruno Latour Donna...

In this working paper we discuss current attempts to engage communities in planning policy formulation in the UK. In particular we focus on the preparation of Community Strategies (CS) in England to inform local public policy and the wider proposals recently published by the UK government to move towards enhanced community engagement in planning (DTLR, 2001). We discuss how such strategies coul...