A new day dawns for Greece – or does it?

According to the latest news on the Greek elections, Left-wing Syriza will be forming a coalition government with a Right-wing populist party called the Independent Greeks – think a Greek version of UKIP with a pinch of conspiracy theorists. Weird? Well, it’s...

Has the constant criticism of politics run out of steam?

In 2004, eminent philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour wrote an influential article entitled: Has the critique run out of steam? Latour argued that social scientists, in seeking to deconstruct and question the assumptions of the ‘pure’ sciences, were left almost...