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  • Knowing neoliberalism, or, why doesn’t talking about it make it better?

  • Boris the introvert

  • Did oil prices cause the financial crisis?

  • Fast movements struggle with slow issues 

  • Why the EU matters for the future of the climate 

  • Can capitalism survive climate change?

  • Neoliberalism: the ideological wall blocking climate action 

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

  • The mundane reality of neo-fascism

  • Nigel Farage the YouTube star 

  • Off shore capital and the great inflation

  • An industry for creating dynasties

  • From political engagement to asset protection

  • The Vertigo of (Accelerated) Corruption

  • How corruption makes history  

  • The ideas industry and funding the new right

  • Is this what techno-fascism will look like?

  • Donald Trump as spectacle and fetish

  • Fascism and the liberal imagination

  • The meaning of Jair Bolsonaro

  • The cultural sociology of defensive elites

  • Trump administration seeking permission to destroy massive amounts of existing and future records

  • When the populists inspire the ad men

  • The disjointed temporality of political life

  • The Labour leadership’s embrace of social media outriders

  • The epochal tetchiness of Anglo-American centrists

  • CFP: Imagining Radical Futures, Princeton Oct. 5th

  • Post-democracy and the transformation of lobbying

  • The quiet revolution of deindustrialization

  • How do politicians understand their own status?

  • Are you interested in the political sociology of Corbynism?

  • The new old division at the heart of politics

  • The Alt-Right and the Reactionary Politics of Transgression

  • Trump and the ascent of the spiralists

  • The global fourth estate

  • Trump as a tactician of post-truth

  • The outrage of billionaires about invoking the existence of billionaires

  • The coming of neoliberal populism: comparing Trump and Macron

  • Are some political tactics more adaptable to intensified social change than others? 

  • Alt-america and the epistemic confusion of liberalism

  • Call for Papers: Journalism in the Age of Partisan Politics, Political Protests, and President Trump

  • How to trash the political rulebook

  • The screams of ‘post-truth’: the rise and fall of the political commentator

  • Alastair Campbell vs Tony Blair

  • The new new left meets the old new left

  • Why the left needs to reject the ideology of networked socialism

  • Hilary Clinton: The oddly fascinating confessions of a political centrist

  • Defensive Elites

  • Elites preparing for disaster

  • The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

  • The notion of a ‘playbook’

  • The fortress city and what it may portend

  • Politico-environmental crisis

  • Public Intellectuals and the Shock Doctrine

  • Brand Corbyn and Brand Trump

  • A playbook for merchandising doubt

  • The disruptive presidency of Donald Trump

  • The revenge practices of plutocrats

  • Against the ‘political rulebook’

  • The abuse Corbyn was subject to from Labour MPs

  • How Corbyn hacked the media

  • “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

  • Public intellectuals as guides to the political flux, Or, “who can tell us what the fuck is going on?”

  • How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

  • The meaning of @realdonaldtrump

  • The fortress city scenario 

  • What’s the difference between academia and politics?

  • Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy

  • What will Macron be like in government?

  • The technocratic oath

  • The Politics of Agency

  • What is a wonk?

  • Defensive Elites

  • CFP: Alternative Facts: Constructing Truth in Civil Societies

  • Donald Trump: Everyday Tactics of Post-Truth

  • The knowledge economy and imagined freedom from material constraint 

  • Fighting for ‘political correctness’ in an age of Trump

  • Cultural representations of finance 

  • The Importance of Business Culture

  • The Banal Bullshit of Thomas Friedman

  • Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

  • The epistemology of democracy’s death

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