• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• The lavender has stained my skin and made me strange

• Nick Cave on the terrible devastating opportunities that bring transformation

• Why (material) things matter to people

• My favourite lyrics from Nick Cave’s Ghosteen filtered through an AI art generator

• Inventing our lives

• Nick Cave on loss and improvisation

• Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh

• Dragonfly Eyes (2017)

• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

• I built a room for you in the back of my mind

• This Place is a Shelter

• Toni Morrison on fascism

• The highly evolved, politicised, social industry-based apparatus of personal destruction

• I’m young enough to be all pissed off but I’m old enough to be jaded

• We are ugly but we have the music

• Post-horror and the obscene character of (post-pandemic?) parties

• André Gorz and the concept of hygiene

• The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

• Day man, fighter of the night man ☀️

• Going back to previous moments in your life through films

• The difference between being post-pandemic and post-covid

• We’ll go someplace, we’ll get a new start 

• I choose this

• How many times must we be shown the outcome of the pattern?

• George Simmel on Eye Contact

• Dream, dream, for this is also sooth

• On Rain

• And I can feel things changing

• A cybernetic black pill

• How we survive is what makes us who we are

• The grim reality of ‘living with Covid’

• Will you forgive my soul when you’re too wise to trust me and too old to care?

• We are already living in the collapse

• On not swimming in circles

• Hold your own

• No guilty party

• And come morning, I am disappeared

• What’s it like to spend your entire life as a cruise ship guest?

• Our entire life is only 4000 weeks

• Civil inattention on public transport during a pandemic

• The Enemy Bacteria

• The bloody scene is bloody sad 

• To every thing there is a season 

• Music for thinking

• Music is the basis of all life

• Cambridge: the most unequal city in the UK

• Why capitalism made it impossible to eradicate Covid

• When will we know how dangerous Omicron is?

• I keep having dreams of things I need to do, of waking up and of following through

• A beginner’s guide to Omicron 

• What will post-neoliberalism look like?

• We need a military history of the culture wars

• Will QAnon go mainstream through evangelical christianity?

• So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten

• The existential challenge of the post-capitalist condition

• Sing, Sing, Sing

• How Covid-19 accelerated the transition into post-capitalism

• We’re leaving neoliberalism and entering something worse

• I don’t rate you 👊

• Winter is coming 🎶😷🌨☃️

• Building and unveiling worlds in science fiction

• Why do we spend so little time analysing the socio-economic catastrophes which almost happened?

• Some rambling reflections on being a millennial leftist during this crisis, post-pandemic inequalities and the union sacrée of Covid-19

• I choose this, I choose this, I choose this

• Why isn’t the cost of living crisis the defining issue of UK politics?

• Succession and the hidden injuries of the neoliberal subject

• If you want to provide your writing with a sense of occasion, listen to this in the background

• What the intersection of Covid and climate crisis means for capitalism

• You can tell a man’s demeanour from his facial hair

• George Monbiot on the tsunami of post-virus illness which is long Covid

• Cambridge as the cutting edge of British capitalism

• I hate what you do and I don’t like you

• You either die a hero or you live long enough to see Batman’s words misattributed to you

• Love and hugs and songs and rage 

• Against the individualisation of COVID

• Where will all the anger go after the pandemic?

• “I’m sorry i just like myself more than I like you” 

• Why I’m extremely worried about this winter

• RIP Mill Road Fox, a fleeting public mourns your death

• Is anyone else’s WordPress doing this?

• The possible forms which post-capitalism could take

• I can be found in the garden, singing this song, when the last rose of summer is gone

• What is it like to be a New York City delivery driver?

• Under Northern Skies

• The song which defined my experience of the pandemic

• What percentage of your life have you spent in a pandemic?

• Why herd immunity through vaccination isn’t possible

• Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

• What I will miss about Cambridge, what I won’t miss about Cambridge

• CfP: Living with Extinction

• Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt)

• The Death of Yugoslavia

• It’s the final countdown…

• Songs for teenagers

• The Side Effects of Vaccines – How High is the Risk?

• So no more talk about the backfires, this time we fire back

• Music is the weapon

• The idiots are taking over