Roger Burrows

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Copy of Manuel Delanda’s War in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Some of us have been scared of this since 1991

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein).
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Algorithmic Dwelling Digital Technologies as Intermediaries in Housing Access and the Enactment of Home

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Cities Under Siege Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...

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Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.

ANU School of Sociology Seminar Series: Prof Roger Burrows ANU School of Sociology Seminar series on

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Study of ‘acid attacks’ in the NE of England.

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Photo of first page of article in Int Journal of Housing Policy

New paper from CODE ENCOUNTERS @nuffieldfoundation.org project on role of open banking and digital profiling in access to private renting in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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PLATFORM: NRx: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed The rise of J.D. Vance to the Vice Presidency of the United States marks a significant, unsettling turn in American politics, reflecting the mainstreaming of neoreactionary (NRx) ideologies that seek ...

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The movement to ditch democracy in favour of start-up cities run by CEOs | CBC Radio What do you get when you take some of the classic Enlightenment values like reason, fairness, and justice, and substitute them with opinion, privilege and power: The Dark Enlightenment — a movement th...

Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Understanding the role of open banking in digital tenant profiling This paper examines open banking’s (OB) emerging role in digital tenant profiling. We focus on England’s rental market within a changing international context of newly adopted OB frameworks. OB is ...

Why Open Banking is important for housing studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding the role of open banking in digital tenant profiling This paper examines open banking’s (OB) emerging role in digital tenant profiling. We focus on England’s rental market within a changing international context of newly adopted OB frameworks. OB is ...

This is just out and references a few other papers from the project: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Playing around with these ideas in relation to housing of late eg www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...

Very useful exchange.

Understanding the role of open banking in digital tenant profiling This paper examines open banking’s (OB) emerging role in digital tenant profiling. We focus on England’s rental market within a changing international context of newly adopted OB frameworks. OB is ...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter YouTube video by Steven Threadgold

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A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life Three decades of austerity in the UK have seen the deterioration of the elemental infrastructures, those that provided a basic level of security for the population. In this article, we analyse the ca....

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Black text on white background under a square blue icon on the top left. Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they’ll announce outcomes of Centres of Excellence on Tuesday 9th Dec. 2025.

ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec).

This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.

Newcastle Youth Studies Centre The Newcastle Youth Studies Centre is a collaborative group of researchers who work with young people to understand their lives, and the social, cultural, and economic forces they are living in.Too of...

We are very happy to announce our huge online seminar series for 2026!
You can see the details for the whole thing at our Eventbrite page and each one below.

The classic early retirement story! @will-davies.bsky.social & I wrote about this movement & all its contradictions back in 2020. doi.org/10.1080/1753...

I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.

Asset classes? Some reflections on the ‘new class realities’ of rentier capitalism - Roger Burrows, 2025 In their recent work, Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings challenge traditional employment-based class models, arguing that asset ownership, particu...

Burrows, R. (2025). Asset classes? Some reflections on the ‘new class realities’ of rentier capitalism. Thesis Eleven, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0725...

Looking forward to the celebration of Cathy Waldby's brilliant career in Canberra next week. Though I'm inclined to speak on radical Sydney and AIDS last century - not biovalue and reproduction!
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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