It's publication day for my book, Fortress Power (U of MN Press). The book is about the weaponization of the built environment, from the early modern bastion fortress to present-day border landscapes and privatized cities. upress.umn.edu/9781517917937/…

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex! ⁦Sussex Anthropology🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ ⁦Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ ⁦University of Sussex⁩ jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV570/ass…

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Visual Anthropology at the University of Sussex! ⁦Sussex Anthropology🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ ⁦Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ ⁦University of Sussex⁩ jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV571/ass…

German AI company Helsing to open factory in Plymouth to manufacture 'SG-1 Fathom', a new autonomous underwater drone that can operate for up to three months at a time

Only 10 days left to submit an abstract for a new edited collection, Feeling Contemporary War. Alex Adams and I are excited to see all your radical, strange, and brilliant chapter ideas. More details here: atadamswriting.com/feeling-contem…

We at the Review mourn the loss of Fanny Howe (1940-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. theparisreview.org/interviews/841…

I don’t think people realize the extent to which Russians have dehumanized Ukrainians. Last week a Russian drone operator targeted a one year old baby in Kherson region. There is an entire curriculum for this hate. It’s taught. I don’t know how a society comes back from this.

Only 4 days left! Please contact me if you need more time :)

Attn gamers: My Future Intelligence colleague Aisha Sobey is running a new project on inclusive game design and gaming avatars, especially in relation to diverse body size. You can help by answering this brief survey and sharing this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Calling all gamers! Please help us with a study on inclusive game design. More info👇

Angry about the way disabled people are being scapegoated? want to learn more about how we harness lessons from our history to keep fighting? Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism is out now - and we're on tour! linktr.ee/rampinguprights

I want to opt out of this surveillance-entertainment economy where we are entitled to stalk, dox, and humiliate random strangers on a mass scale, because they existed in public space

Pleased to share my review of Adam Fish's Oceaning: Governing Marine Life with Drones; an inventive, smart, and timely addition to critical drone studies that identifies its human-centered limits: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash, published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of d i f f e r e n c e s (36:1). Read it for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

Not sure how much use this will be but: I'll be moving to London this September for my MA, so I'm looking for — preferably well-paying — part-time football work, whether that's on-location or remote/semi-remote.

While at BISA - British International Studies Association last month, I had the great pleasure of being on a roundtable on the political economy of organised violence, where I talked about drones. SPERI @SPERIshefuni.bsky.social has produced that conversation as a podcast, which is now podcast of the week at The Syllabus! Listen here 👇