• The death drive as a will to create from zero, to begin again

• Who should we trust when the apocalypse comes? Some thoughts on post-horror

• Hope is optimism with a broken heart

• What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• Cultivating a relationship of gratitude towards the world

• Nick Cave on the terrible devastating opportunities that bring transformation

• Why (material) things matter to people

• Inventing our lives

• Nick Cave on loss and improvisation

• Nick Cave on suffering, loss and renewal

• Being open to the world

• The comfort of ideas

• The chasm at the heart of our agency

• What does it mean to live a good life in a broken world? Some post-pandemic thoughts on Charles Taylor’s philosophy

• The unconscious fluency of writing

• Finding joy on a dying planet: failing to act as psychic self-defence and how to overcome it

• What’s the difference between a cult and a community?

• The Evisceration of the Human Under Digital Capitalism 

• Flourishing as freedom

• Cruel optimism and living for the present

• Cruel optimism and the possibility of renewal

• Trauma as a genre for understanding the present

• Stagnation, euthymia and flourishing

• Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and Resistance

• Our entire life is only 4000 weeks

• What does it feel like to be inspired?

• The phenomenology of insomnia

• Groping nervously towards the expression of inner life

• What does it mean to be human after Covid-19?

• What do you do? Intellectual biography as self-constitution

• Towards a sociology of splintered minds

• The inner life of behaviourists

• The emptiness that comes with online performance

• Succession and the hidden injuries of the neoliberal subject

• How bad will things get? The role of social theory when civilisation is collapsing

• Platform capitalism and the compulsive search for signs

• The platform ecosystem as a field of temptation and the virtues required to negotiate it

• The sociological overlaps with incel culture

• Are you a non-player character in your own life?

• Are you a finisher or an abandoner? On the existential anxieties of the bibliophile

• Tilting within myself

• On waiting for life to start

• The compulsive search for signs

• The malaise of modernity

• The loneliness of knowledge production during a pandemic

• I don’t control life, but I can control how I react to it

• Recovering the Homeric gods

• Covid censoriousness

• Do people annoy you more than they used to?

• A conversation with Tyler Shores about digital wellbeing

• Magical voluntarism: I got this

• What does it mean to be partners-in-freedom?

• The psychopolitics of lockdown

• The spectral character of Covid-19, or, will growing deaths undermine denialism

• Why can’t history leave us alone? I want to return to my bubble

• The intoxicating immediacy with which we can now act on the feel of an idea

• The strangely coherent eclecticism of our inner experience

• Recognising the need which Jordan Peterson is serving

• The irreducibility of hope

• Slavoj Žižek’s surprisingly earnest and rather good advice about adapting to lockdown

• Panic and reflexivity

• Covid-19 and the impossibility of floating freely in our undisturbed balance

• The politics of seeking a less clamorous place

• When does an immersive video game become an addictive one?

• The micro-foundationalism of Erich Fromm

• Durkheim’s account of the boundary between the psychological and sociological

• The man instead of seeking a kind of…

• A machine for killing relationality

• The spiritual death of the digital age

• Our tributes to the power the machine has over us

• The overaffectation of the crowd

• Who needs actions when you got words?

• Externalisation as defence mechanism

• The anxiety of inertia: binge watching as death drive 

• Harvey Specter: a study in late modern sociopathy

• a DDoS attack on the human will  

• Reconciling the psychoanalytical and the reflexive 

• Donald Trump as spectacle and fetish

• The vulnerability of human experience to abbreviation

• The claustrophobia of imminence

• Who are we if we can’t protect them?

• Collective action and the realisation of your own smallness

• Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

• Social media and the devaluation of introspection

• The fetishisation of interiority

• The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

• Digital media and ontological security 

• The substitute socialisation of the marine corp

• The Affectivity of the Nascent Tyrant

• The emotional dimension of chronopolitics

• The sobered modernist perspective

• Home ownership as a psychological rather than economic reality 

• Something has ended and everyone can feel it

• The Importance of Disappointment

• “The second I walk through those doors, all my problems go away. The second I leave them, my problems are back”

• Super-ego individualization

• The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

• A symposium on the digital subject

• The Pains of Work and the Relief of the Refrain