Heather Mcknight
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Mcknight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcknight |
| SIGNATURE | MCKNIGHT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4157-9659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Un/Building the Future
Science fiction (SF) frequently invites us to step into realms other than our own and observe what happens within these new conditions. Philip K. Dick defines the genre as one that builds on the possibilities opened by “conceptual dislocation,” or degrees of estrangement from one’s familiar experience(s).1 Contemporary post-anthropocentric inquiries from across the humanities and social sciences often combine science-fictional thought with practi…
Chaos and hope
Arguably, chaos and entropy are adaptive to activism and utopian theory; they trouble normative approaches to temporal progress, applying a non-linear and emergent approach to thinking about activism and possibility. [...] This initial exploratory definition of the nano-utopian describes moments that are fractions of [...] micro- utopian structures, or that may initially sit at a disconnect from them, differing mainly in the fact that they are un…
Invisible Roots of Knowledge Production and their Role in Resistance to the Marketisation of Education
Recent, highly visible, struggles in Higher Education in the UK, such as the pensions strike, have aimed to recast such protests as part of a bigger struggle to maintain the public university. Viewing the shared pension scheme as one of the last defining features of a public institution. However, Federici in her recent book Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons warns us if we wish to change the university in line with …
The storm
Networks
Reflecting about 8.1. Networks (2018)
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Chaos and hope
Arguably, chaos and entropy are adaptive to activism and utopian theory; they trouble normative approaches to temporal progress, applying a non-linear and emergent approach to thinking about activism and possibility. [...] This initial exploratory definition of the nano-utopian describes moments that are fractions of [...] micro- utopian structures, or that may initially sit at a disconnect from them, differing mainly in the fact that they are un…
Invisible Roots of Knowledge Production and their Role in Resistance to the Marketisation of Education
Recent, highly visible, struggles in Higher Education in the UK, such as the pensions strike, have aimed to recast such protests as part of a bigger struggle to maintain the public university. Viewing the shared pension scheme as one of the last defining features of a public institution. However, Federici in her recent book Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons warns us if we wish to change the university in line with …
The storm
Networks
Reflecting about 8.1. Networks (2018)
Un/Building the Future
Science fiction (SF) frequently invites us to step into realms other than our own and observe what happens within these new conditions. Philip K. Dick defines the genre as one that builds on the possibilities opened by “conceptual dislocation,” or degrees of estrangement from one’s familiar experience(s).1 Contemporary post-anthropocentric inquiries from across the humanities and social sciences often combine science-fictional thought with practi…
Computer Science (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Advanced Graph Neural Networks (1 work) · Anthropocene (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)