• Avant-garde theorising is a reflection of the competitive individualism of the academy

• Lacan tried to save the subject from structuralism

• Ralph Waldo Emerson’s self-reliance amidst the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Do people annoy you more than they used to?

• Magical voluntarism: I got this

• Will Covid-19 generate an epidemiological folk consciousness? What will this mean for platform capitalism?

• The micro-foundationalism of Erich Fromm

• The intimacy of writing

• Social media fosters egotism rather than individualism

• Donald Trump’s Words of Power

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

• Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

• the micro-politics of noise and the challenge of being-with-others

• Selling psychopathy in late modernity

• Realism, Reflexivity, Conflation, and Individualism