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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Covid-19 and the re-politicisation of the economy

  • the pandemic age has its origins in neoliberal agribusiness

  • The Shifting Plate Tectonics of Late Neoliberalism

  • The neoliberal social contract

  • Anti-Trumpism mirrored Trumpism

  • Just the flu

  • The anthropological shock of Covid-19

  • Neoliberalism is limping to its death: what comes next?

  • The emerging contours of (alt)liberal anti-leftism

  • The challenge of post-neoliberal civics

  • Europe is lost

  • The perpetual warfare of the populist president

  • The immersive challenge of the hyperserial narrative

  • The problem of British towns

  • Fascism and the pleasures of joining in

  • Robot, experience this tragic irony for me

  • CfP: Addressing Violent Youth Radicalisation in Europe

  • A few thoughts on the election

  • Election 2019 and journalism

  • So this is why we try? We bet it all on hopeless?

  • Ontological junctures

  • The highly structured centralised system of the grassroots campaign

  • Hampered by the need to defend the EU…

  • This was drawn by Patrick Tresset’s robot It…

  • The promise of the populist president

  • The vested interests of the media in Trump

  • The nostalgia of centrism

  • Recension Day

  • The Goods Yard, Kings Cross, London, UK

  • Human Tetris

  • The Poetics of Data Analytics

  • Call for video entries: city and night

  • On Manchester

  • We were always waiting for something to happen

  • Showing up, standing, breathing, moving

  • The Founder

  • Boris the introvert

  • This is how it works

  • Did oil prices cause the financial crisis?

  • This is not a pipe

  • Turn those clapping hands into angry fists

  • Professionalisation as capture 

  • Fast movements struggle with slow issues 

  • Why the EU matters for the future of the climate 

  • And I always dreamed of classic cars and movie screens

  • Can capitalism survive climate change?

  • The world’s a stage and we play a character, I found him

  • Neoliberalism: the ideological wall blocking climate action 

  • Game of Thrones: from sociological to psychological storytelling

  • Climate change as doorstep politics

  • The singular innovation which explains capitalism’s growth

  • The fantasies of wealthy city dwellers

  • Should climate change be a master narrative?

  • What comes after 2100?

  • The movement of people around an uninhabitable earth

  • When political theory restages the ‘Corbynism is a cult’ trope

  • Who would be against the people?

  • The dark possibilities incipient with Universal Basic Income

  • The political adulthood of the Occupy generation

  • Taking back control: what happens when people realise they were lied to?

  • Corbynism without Corbyn

  • And who are you supposed to be?

  • Optimism as a political factor in Brexit Britain

  • Austerity politics as reactionary populism

  • It’s The Political Economy, Stupid

  • Political science, epistemic snobbery and the Corbyn problem

  • So you were born, and that was a good day

  • The real danger is to linger at the base of the thing

  • “If you are for or against dictatorship, call in”: the terrifying turn in British politics

  • lights are out, phones are dead and I’m the only thing that’s runnin in this city

  • Talking to people on trains

  • The anxiety of inertia: binge watching as death drive 

  • But you can recognise me because I’m you

  • Breathe Me

  • Are you interested in sociological fiction?

  • Everything’s connected, right? Everything’s connected

  • How does one become a competitive Rubiks cube player?

  • A few questions about Marvel’s Secret Wars

  • The media must take responsibility for recent far right attacks on left wing journalists

  • I hate to think I’ll make it to 70, potentially 75, and realise I’ve never been alive

  • ‘Free speech’ as the unifying principle of a resurgent right

  • The mundane reality of neo-fascism

  • 🐈 The Skiathos Cats 🐈

  • I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies

  • A few videos on quantum computing and the physics of time I want to come back to later

  • Look at me now 

  • Sally Rooney on Theory Anxiety

  • a machine that’ll speak for me

  • Thinking with your feet 

  • Trying to exist in superposition

  • From gated communities to moated communities

  • Off shore capital and the great inflation

  • Iain Sinclair on the self-importance of Cambridge

  • Harvey Specter: a study in late modern sociopathy

  • An industry for creating dynasties

  • “They ruined the world”

  • From political engagement to asset protection

  • The Vertigo of (Accelerated) Corruption

  • How corruption makes history  

  • The ideas industry and funding the new right

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