Month: January 2017

• January 20, 2017

  New Weapons, New Wars: New Ideas

  

  Whilst traditional security studies “ostensibly prioritises the relationship between technology and security” it is simultaneously guilty of “maintaining a particularly emaciated conception [of this relationship]”(Columba Peoples, Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence, 2010). “Oddly, though, many non-fictional accounts of how technology develops still treat the material apart from the social, as if the design of tools and…
• January 20, 2017

  Jay Z, Climate Change & the Importance of Words

  

  This is the first in a short series of posts that hope to explore how language and discourse is deployed in order to legitimise or otherwise justify acts of political violence.
• January 18, 2017

  Biometrics and the War on Terror

  

  The post hopes to give brief insight into some of the key narratives that have been employed in strategic and governmental discourse relating to biometrics in the War on Terror.