• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• The Covid-19 pandemic as a social mechanism driving biographical change

• Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage

• What is Elon Musk’s end game?

• Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

• Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

• Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

• Was Tony Blair the first effective accelerationist?

• If Donald Trump represents an insurgency against elites then why do so many billionaires support him?

• Pandemic trauma as a driver of far-right radicalisation

• Minimalism as a philosophy of post-neoliberalism

• The danger GAI poses to the public sphere is not false belief, it’s the (further) collapse of trust in truth

• CfP: Post-Pandemic Imaginaries Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown

• What is fascism in the 2020s?

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• Are we bringing vibes to a gun fight? Judith Butler’s theory of social change

• Thought experiment: if society turned up in the Lacanian clinic seeking treatment, what would the diagnosis be?

• “What was a slow grind towards broad poverty is going to become a fucking rapid march towards poverty”

• How a deliberately inflated housing market is strangling the UK economy

• Theorising permanent instability and volatility as necessary rather than contingent features of the environment

• What if we have achieved postcapitalism but it isn’t socialism?

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• Erfahrung: conspiracies, baking and the return of the repressed

• Coaxing the sight and sound back to your life

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

• The meaning of civics as the new world struggles to be born

• We are already living in the collapse

• What will post-neoliberalism look like?

• Some rambling reflections on being a millennial leftist during this crisis, post-pandemic inequalities and the union sacrée of Covid-19

• What the intersection of Covid and climate crisis means for capitalism

• RIP Mill Road Fox, a fleeting public mourns your death

• The political economy of Bidenism

• The civic challenges which come after the pandemic

• The return of normality

• The responsibility of educators in a pandemic

• Two approaches to musical performance