• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#24)

• The poor white American abject 

• The “least resistant personality profile”

• Ambient intimacy and cultures of overwork

• Social Movements and Pseudo-Activity 

• The otherness of animals

• The evacuation of the social by elites 

• Social democracy is not post-capitalism, it’s past capitalism

• Images of the end of capitalism

• The hollowness of cultural politics 

• The components of social democracy 

• Jeremy Corbyn as the mirror image of Margaret Thatcher

• Three reasons why I believe in Jeremy Corbyn (and some doubts)

• Are journalists personally afraid of a Trump presidency?

• 3 dystopian visions of the future of gaming (and capitalism)

• Tony Benn on the Labour Party in 1991

• Donald Trump explaining intelligence

• Trump is masculinising poverty

• Well now everything dies baby that’s a fact

• The political significance of the zombie horde

• The fragility of the occupy movement

• The coming army of American demagogues

• When did optimism become a characteristic possessed by the right and lacked by the left?

• Post-democratic decision making in the EU

• Something has ended and everyone can feel it

• I Could’a Been A Contender

• The coordinates of the austerity consensus are disintegrating

• The end game of the American free-market right 

• Understanding the rage of the Labour right

• The tragically incompetent elites of the centre left

• The radicalisation of reactionaries

• The Myth of Elite Cosmopolitanism

• Stories of the River Irwell

• The (American) dreams of defensive elites

• The expert-celebrity axis and the legitimation of technocracy 

• The defensive elites of the cultural industries 

• Two documentaries about the super-rich

• Take the time to make some sense of what you want to say

• Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?

• Institutionalised depoliticisation at the IMF 

• Murmuration

• Trans/Gender-Nonconforming College Students Project

• The Janus-faced ideology of philanthropic elites

• Philanthrocapitalism as an assembly device for elites 

• The growth of elite philanthropy 

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Who are the world’s 950 billionaires?

• Interned Professionals and Defensive Elites

• Great Expectations

• The Intern Army on Which Washington Depends

• What might Trumpist authoritarianism look like?

• A sign of how messed up expectations about taxation have become in the last few decades

• Forces of Victory

• Billionaires are people, too

• I lied about being the outdoor type

• What Donald Trump’s business strategies suggest about his presidency 

• The Blizzard of Photography

• Varoufakis on contemporary capitalism’s preposterous reversal of the truth

• Funding third-party lawsuits as a tool of defensive elites

• The Electorate as Constitutional Kings

• How to move further from Mandela without becoming Mugabe

• Debt as an instrument of post-democratic control

• Freeing those who govern from the constraints of democracy

• Reclaiming ‘aspiration’ for the left 

• The EU: a flawed democracy whose failures are fuelling the rise of fascism?

• The King of Kong: a documentary about celebrity gamers

• Music to catch up on work to #1

• It’s not you, it’s capitalism

• The London Radical Book Fair at Goldsmiths, this Saturday 7th May

• Lucy Powell on Conservative anti-Semitism in the last election

• Breathe for me: interesting performance event in collaboration with @sociowarwick

• Obama’s Best Comebacks and Rebuttals

• Has there ever been a Presidential hopeful who has appeared in so many tacky TV adverts?

• The Centre for Public Imagination

• The Liberal Imagination of Barack Obama

• Capitalism will eat democracy – unless we speak up

• neo-progressive cat contemplates own existence

• The emergence of the ‘informal advisor’ in Washington politics 

• Post-democracy’s no-nonsense purveyors of hard political truths

• Defensive Elites: understanding the 0.1%

• The normalisation of the revolving door in U.S. Politics

• The entrepreneurial journalist

• The Self-Understandings of Technocratic Elites

• The Politics of Time and the Possibility of Democracy

• “What do you do?”

• I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead

• all the world is green

• Is there a point of no return with entrenched elites?

• Pity those ‘trapped by their wealth’

• The capacity of elites to combine voice and exit

• ‘The people who own the country should rule it’

• Declining political literacy as a vector of post-democratisation

• Photos from protests in Reykjavik

• The Growth of Political Consultancy

• Patience for the epigrammatic, but brief

• Call for papers: the politics of identity 

• Self-pimping as the prevailing social and business imperative

• The End of You Too

• Plutocrats being absurdly defensive: please share any examples you come across!